[metafont] Re: [metapost] TeX and MF: Fast-loading of core image

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Jan 5 18:47:57 CET 2005


Laurence Finston wrote:

> do it after all.  Things seem to have been going downhill
> ever since they invented punch cards.

eh ... downhill? you want to go back to the time that Don K wrote the texbook: 
64 K memory and this 1 meg dvi file filling up your whole disk after probably a 
full night processing time?

Hans

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