[OS X TeX] Textures early history
Max Chernoff
mseven at telus.net
Sun Aug 7 05:30:00 EDT 2022
> I found a short review of Textures at
>
> http://www.atpm.com/4.12/page12.shtml
That gives quite a nice overview of the program. Thanks.
> I also believe that Barry Smith had to give up on the name MacTeX
> because this belonged to a Canadian company, which started such a Mac
> implementation when the mac was brand new, and quickly gave up. This
> was perhaps FTL?
The FTL ads give a Toronto address, and Smith's implementation was only
named MacTeX for a few months, so this seems consistent with the (very
little) information that I've found.
Thanks for helping me solve this mystery.
-- Max
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