home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pop.stat.purdue.edu!hrubin
- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: BUSES and other things
- Message-ID: <55077@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 14:08:28 GMT
- References: <54988@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul25.095712.17550@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <1992Jul25.095712.17550@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
-
- ..................
-
- >Besides speed, what else do you think is important in a desktop bus?
-
- For the hundreds of thousands of users (this is a conservative estimate
- based on observations at a few universities) who do mathematical typing,
- an extremely important thing to have would be a large variety of characters
- available for simultaneous display on the screen, with the file in a
- serial form, so that it could be easily edited and transmitted to other
- users and processors. Tex and similar constructs are fine for typesetting,
- but not for producing the original.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- Phone: (317)494-6054
- hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
- {purdue,pur-ee}!pop.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
-