TeX was and is available on a large number of OSes. I was very happy being to run a 'large' TeX instance on my Atari ST with 1 MB of ram, it could easily typeset my undergraduate thesis.

Indeed. TeX later moved to Pascal, but was originally written in SAIL for use on WAITS. GLS ported it to ITS (the first ever port of TeX), and also was responsible for lobbying Knuth to make it Turing-Complete.

Man, is there any part of modern computing that doesn't have GLS's fingerprints on it?

For anyone else wondering: GLS = Guy L. Steele (this took me quite a while)

troff (which is what would have been used here) can do footnotes.

I learned TeX because it was fucking gorgeous.

Who is this Gorgeous? And what does it have to do with TeX?

Please don't post like this here.

Who is general Failure? And why is he reading my disk?

Now now, you mught get scolded by an admin!

Nothing quite like a double standard around here. The poster makes a valueless comment, I make a mild joke and the original poster is ignored.

P.S. I laughed at your response :-)