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kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) writes:

>In article <100289@linus.UUCP> carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) writes:
>>In article <DSAMPSON.90Feb26100742@x102a.harris-atd.com> dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) writes:
>>>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?

>You may want to wait for MSW 3.0. InfoWorld had some screen shots of the
>new version and one of the big improvements is supposed to be that it 
>can run in protected mode. Supposedly there is a special 386 mode also 
>that features improved memory usage. The new version may fix the bugs you
>are experiencing.

>In the article they specifically said that they tried word for windows
>on the new and old windows. The result was that the new version of windows
>ran w for w "significantly faster" whatever that means. 

I'll second this.  I'm running WfW on my 12MHz '286, and it's unacceptably 
slow.  There are a lot of small problems with the program that are not going
to go away with Windows 3.0, but I have seen Windows 3.0 in beta and the
beta testers told me that it ran WfW "quite a bit faster."  I don't have
any benchmarks about what that means, either, but there is hope...

					(-:  Brad Brown  :-)
					bradb@ai.utoronto.ca