[508] in SIPB bug reports
Re: LaTeX -> virtex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 11 04:43:51 1989
From: opus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 May 89 04:43:46 EDT
To: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Robert S. French's message of Thu, 11 May 89 00:37:15 EDT
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
LaTeX, et al. were originally changed to not be undumped because each
copy of the undumped program was around 1 meg of disk space. Not only
did this waste disk space (we had TeX, LaTeX, SliTeX, AmSTeX,
GermanTeX, etc; one meg per program), but over NFS, it was faster to
load the small virtex and interpret lplain.fmt (around .25 meg total
for both programs). I suspect that over AFS, you will find that this
argument will still hold. Besides, the second time you run LaTeX, the
format is on local disk, right?
-Dave
