Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 2 (July 28, 1982)

DONALD KNUTH: OK, welcome to session number 2. We're going to start looking now into some of the fundamental data structures that

are used by the program. And to start out, I'd like to just give some idea as to how

these 1,200 modules of TeX can be broken down.

So let's see. This is a little diagram that I tried

to estimate the relative sizes. If you looked inside a memory and took out all the system