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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label sysother</title>
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<h3>Other systems&#8217; TeX availability</h3>
<p/>For PCs, running MSDOS or OS/2, EmTeX (by Eberhard
Mattes) offers LaTeX, BibTeX, previewers, and drivers.  It is
available as a series of zip archives, with documentation in both
German and English.  Appropriate memory managers for using emTeX
with 386 (and better) processors and under pre-&#8217;9x Windows, are
included in the distribution.  (EmTeX <em>can</em> be made to operate
under Windows, but even back when it was &#8220;current&#8221;, such use wasn&#8217;t
very actively encouraged.
<p/>A version of emTeX, packaged to use a 
<a href="FAQ-tds.html">TDS directory structure</a>, is separately available as an
emTeX &#8216;contribution&#8217;.  Note that neither emTeX itself, nor
emTeX-TDS, is maintained.  Users of Microsoft operating
systems, who want an up-to-date (La)TeX system, need Win32-based
systems.
<p/>For PCs, running MSDOS, a further option is a port of the
Web2C 7.0 implementation, using the GNU <i>djgpp</i>
compiler.  While this package is more recent than emTeX, it
nevertheless also offers a rather old instance of (La)TeX.
<p/>For PCs running OS/2, users also have the option of the
free version of the commercial <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">VTeX</a>, which
specialises in direct production of PDF from (La)TeX input.
(This  version is, like the Linux version, unfortunately no longer
supported.)
<p/>For VAX systems running OpenVMS, a TeX distribution
is available, but it seems unlikely that the version on CTAN is
the latest available.
<p/>For the Atari ST and TT, CS-TeX is available
from CTAN; it&#8217;s offered as a set of ZOO archives.
<p/>Amiga users have the option of a full implementations of TeX 3.1
(PasTeX) and Metafont 2.7.
<p/>It&#8217;s less likely that hobbyists would be running TOPS-20
machines, but since TeX was originally written on a DEC-10
under WAITS, the TOPS-20 port is another near approach
to Knuth&#8217;s original environment. Sources are available by anonymous
<code>ftp</code> from <a href="ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/pub/web">ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/pub/web</a>
  
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<dt><tt><i>Atari TeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/atari/cs-tex">systems/atari/cs-tex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/atari-cstex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>djgpp</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/msdos/djgpp.zip">systems/msdos/djgpp</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/msdos/djgpp/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>emtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/msdos/emtex.zip">systems/msdos/emtex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/msdos/emtex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>emtexTDS</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/obsolete/systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS.zip">obsolete/systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/obsolete/systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>OpenVMS</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/OpenVMS/TEX97_CTAN.ZIP">systems/OpenVMS/TEX97_CTAN.ZIP</a>
<dt><tt><i>PasTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/amiga.zip">systems/amiga</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/amiga/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>vtex for Linux</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux.zip">systems/vtex/linux</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/vtex-free.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>vtex for OS/2</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/os2.zip">systems/vtex/os2</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/os2/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/vtex-free.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>vtex required common files</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common.zip">systems/vtex/common</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common/">browse the directory</a>)
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