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In article <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> yjkim@milton.acs.washington.edu (Yong Kim) writes:

>  I have tried to use MS WORD 5.0 for Window this afternoon to realize
>  that it's working so slow on PS-2 55SX (836SX) with 30 Mbytes.
>  What is the problem?  Is the problem related to the WINDOW 386?
>  Or to the one inherent in WORD for Window.   Basically, I like their
>  new interface - trying to be MacLike, but I cannot bear with their
>  slow response.  It took around 2 sec to shift a one pageful of text
>  to the right! (well let's say between 1 to 2 secs).
>  Any comment, wait for the new release?

Two things will affect how Word for Windows runs:

1)  Your processor speed

2)  Whether you have extended memory

The more speed, the better.  I think that Word for Windows is better
suited for a 386 instead of a 286 (because of the speed
considerations).  I'm running it on a 10MHz 286 at work and think its
a little sluggish.  I've ordered a Gateway 20MHz 386 (for home), and
expect tremendous improvements because of the processor speed
increase.

One thing that will get immediate and dramatic results independent of
what kind of machine you own, is to run SmartDrive (if you have
expanded memory).  Without SmartDrive, you will spend alot of time
waiting while the program keeps crunching away at your disk.

In general, I think that the program is excellent.  It's definitely a
superset of Word 5.0.  I'm learning to program under Windows, so I can
appreciate the effort that went into developing this product.  I think
the MS people did a hell of a coding job.  This is one of those
programs that is so feature rich, that I won't be exhausting its
capabilities anytime soon.

I don't think an upgrade is going to improve things for you.  As they
add capabilities they may improve the overall execution speed, but
they might also make it slower too.  Word for Windows is indicative of
the power that will be put into future programs.  With my current
hardware, I don't get a snap response to commands, but I'm willing to
live with that (at least until I get accustomed to the 20MHz 386 world
:) ).



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