WordPerfect slowdown

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From: Bill Silvert
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 20:14

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Can anyone shed light on the drastic slowdown that I sometimes get with
WordPerfect, which WP programmers claim is a TOS problem.  The symptoms
are an incredible delay, sometimes 5 min. to respond to a single
keystroke or mouse press.  It can strike any time, and then all you can
do is take 5 or 10 minutes to save your work and reboot, which usually
brings the system up OK.  WP says the problem usually happens after the
machine has been on for a while, but I just had it happen last night
when I started the system cold.  They claim it happens with other
software, but I have seen it only with WP.

I am running a pretty old 1 Meg. 520 booting from a Supra 60.  Idle 1.2
is installed, no other TSR's.

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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: WordPerfect slowdown
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Date: 10 May 89 20:14:01 GMT
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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