[OS X TeX] Which Alpha ... ??

[Joseph Slater]

On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 07:34 AM, Michael Murray wrote:

> Mac OS X seems to bring lots of choices. We have numerous tex 
> applications
> and now it seems two versions of Alpha ?
>
> Am I right in assuming that AlphTk and AlphaX (not released yet) are
> different shareware applications in terms of licensing.  Can anyone
> comment on the differences between them?
>

Yes. My bet is that in the long run, you won't be able to tell them 
apart, except that AlphaX should run faster than AlphaTK. You likely 
won't notice the difference, but that will likely be it. They have 
different cores, but the scripting on the top is the same (modes and 
such).

AlphaTK can be used on other platforms, AlphaX cannot.

Differences that currently exist, I can't comment on, since I don't have 
AlphaX. However, I expect the differences to diminish over time.

Vince would be better able to answer.
Joe

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