David JONES on Nostr: Today I had nostalgia for running TeX. When I first ran TeX, it was on a computer ...
Today I had nostalgia for running TeX. When I first ran TeX, it was on a computer that had 64MB of RAM. To support often more than 100 simultaneous online users.
Now when i need to use TeX, it starts by downloading the entire internet. Where did we go wrong?
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