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erik quanstrom wrote:

> however gnu has devolved.

degenerated.

It occured to me the other day that tex has way more useful things to
say about portability than, say, gnu /bin/cp.

Tex seems to run on anything that has an ALU and a program counter and
more than 20 bits of address space.

ron