Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: Dr. Mike Clark
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <19950911.143944.27@angmulti.demon.co.uk> , Peter Greenham
<mailto:peterg@angmulti.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In message <19950905.185839.02@anakrono.anakrono.demon.co.uk> Tony Spence wrote:
> 
> > Anyone out there managed to load MS Word 6.0 on an RPC610 with Acorn 486
> > card?
> 
> Yep. Works fine, though s-l-o-w.
> 
> > There appears to be some incompatibility problem between the issue disc
> > names and RiscOS as only discs 1 & 2 can be read as opening disc 3, 5, 6 or
> > 7 gives the error message Disk drive not known, whilst trying to open disc 4
> > root directory opens my hard disc root!
> 
> Uh? :-)
> 
Works fine for me and I had no problems installing it. Also I don't find
it too slow either. I'm using it on a 26MB RiscPC with 16MB RAM configured for
PC plus 50% extra configured for the screen mode x800y600c32K

Mike Clark, mrc7@cam.ac.uk          http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~mrc7/
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From: "Dr. Mike Clark" <mrc7@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
Date: 1995/09/13
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