[metapost] Re: [metafont] Dumping preloaded executables in the [g]?olden days

[Laurence Finston]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Below is a demonstration in TOPS-20 on the KLH10 simulator that I ran
> just now to show how easy it was for Don Knuth to provide for
> preloading of large macro packages in TeX and Metafont on TOPS-20.
>

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Thank you very much.  I'm going to need some time to work through this,
though.  I especially enjoyed your "trip down memory lane".  I didn't
start programming until 1991, so I missed out on that era.

Laurence