From: justin@sunra.astro.cf.ac.uk (Justin Shuttleworth) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:04:42
In article <1993Sep28.172229.9083@aber.ac.uk> jfd0@aber.ac.uk (Julian Day) writes:
: There is a program called 'doc' in /usr/bin/X11 in SLS 1.03.
: I've tried it very briefly, but I was very disappointed with
: the performance. I had top running in another window, and doc
: was using over 80% of the CPU, even when I wasn't doing anything.
: -greg
doc seemed to perform much more reasonably with a co-pro. Without, it is
unusably slowwwwww.
Julian Day
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This is not so surprising. Presumably you mean the doc that comes as part
of the InterViews release. InterViews uses floats to store *all* of its
internal measurements, so a coprocessor is necessary for all but the most
basic of InterViews-based programs.
I program using InterViews on a couple of PCs using Linux and Dell SVR4,
have found a coprocessor to be a prerequisite.
-Justin