brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (06/03/88)
A few tidbits in one article to save bandwidth. 1. I received the 2Mb memory expansion board I ordered from Digital Data Systems (phone 404-425-5700). The board is manufactured by Piiceon, and works fine. It installed easily in my 2Mb 3b1, passed all the diagnostics. This should eliminate any confusion about these boards not working on machines with 2Mb on the motherboard. Standard disclaimers re DDS, Piiceon. 2. For you ARPA types, Tim Morgan's web2c software can be anonymously FTP'd from ICS.UCI.EDU in the pub area. The web2c package allows one to take the TeX source code in WEB (straight from Knuth) and translate it into C. The result compiles (using shared library) without problem on a 3b1 and passes Knuth's TeX "trip test." The web2c distribution also includes the latest BibTeX (0.99c) currently available. I don't know how the performance compares to the Common TeX now distributed by Ed Hepler (elh@vu-vlsi). 3. I've received a number of inquiries about Gnu CC. I don't use it at the moment, since all evidence on gnu.gcc.* indicates it to be unstable. Yet the interest continues, so I suggest that one (or more) of you UNIXpc Gnu CC hackers out there volunteer to set up a distribution facility. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant