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In an earlier post, Bruce Carlson writes:  "I would appreciate hearing
any comments/problems that anyone has found with Word for Windows.  I
bought my upgrade about a week ago and at this point I'm about ready to
use the 30 day return option and give it back to Microsoft."

I've been using Word for Windows for a few weeks now and I'm generally
happy with it.  I've got a weird setup on my computer -- I'm using an XT
with a Quadram 386xt (which is a lot like the Intell Inboard 386).  I
initially used it with the smartdrive that comes with the run-time
version of MS Windows that's bundled with WFW.  That worked okay, but
I've found that things work much more quickly if I run the program out
of a ramdrive.  So I've set up an 864k ramdrive and I load the program
and the two .ini files in and execute the program from there.

So far, the only problems I've had is some sort of compatibility problem
with the bios on my floppy disk controller (XT's can't run 1.44 drives,
so you have to use either a software patch or use a controller with its
own bios).  I haven't figured it out yet, but other than that, it's fine.

It seems about as quick as Word 4.0 on a Mac II and in general it runs
about as fast as Word 5.0 did on the same machine -- and I don't have
any problems updating the display or scrolling quickly through text. If
I could figure out the problems I'm having with my floppies, I'd be much
happier.  If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it.  I'm using a
Northgate UFDC to control a 360K and a 1.44M floppy.  I've relocated the
address that the bios use a few times, but the problem doesn't go away. 
According to Microsoft, the runtime version of windows needs four full
page frames to load.  It seems like I've given it that, and the program
works fine as long as I just use the hard drive and the ram drive.  But
the program sometimes blows up when I try to read or write to the
floppies.

Mike Palmquist

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