🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8702061538.AA22661@ee.ecn.purdue.edu>, mckay@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Dwight D McKay) writes:
> 
> YES!  I've gotten my upgrade to VIP professional from ISD marketing.  It
> appears to fix all the bugs I found in VIP (mostly print formatting), runs
> fine under GEM and is well worth the $19.95 upgrade charge.
> 
> NOTE:  It *very* big.  About 310K in fact.  If you've got a 512K machine
> you might not want to upgrade as you'll only have room for very small
> spreadsheets.

Unlike the original text version of VIP Professional, the GEM version uses
a sparse matrix implementation which uses much less memory for spreadsheets
unless they are _really_ packed.  So, it may be that some users will discover
that they can have larger spreadsheets than they had before.

                                       Bob Breum
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