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The school ponied up for some DEC laser printers to supplement, eventually replace, the daisy wheel printers, and the output both looked great (despite the DEC output being relatively "fuzzy" [1]) and allowed for foreign characters.

Knuth's book on TeX was a very enjoyable read.

[1] IIRC, the Math Dept. eventually acquired an Apple LaserWriter or two, and if you pushed the output there, the lines looked significantly cleaner.




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