Date   : Tue, 17 Feb 1987 11:43:40 -0500
From   : SKY <ken@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU>
Subject: Re: TEX on CP/M

TeX probably has no chance of fitting on any 8 bit micro. There are
commercial TeX's for MSDOS. The problem with porting the software
yourself is that TeX is a good torture test of Pascal compilers.  There
is also a C version. You can FTP TeX sources from score.stanford.edu at
off-peak hours.

The problem is not just porting TeX, you have to bring up the fonts and
device drivers. There is a lot of code and data involved. The Unix TeX
tape has 35 Mb of goodies.

       Ken