Re: Word 3.0 evaluation

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From: Clive Steward
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1987 19:20

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in article <2809@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, jww@sdcsvax.UUCP says:
> Reliability
> Fair.  It crashed in the first three hours with a standard Mac Plus and 
> System/Finder configuration.  Dictionaries lost in a crash.  No documented 
> way of reloading from the temp file on disk, and several obvious approaches 
> at using the temp files didn't work.
> 
> Clutters System Folder with temp files that it doesn't delete, for
> some reason.  (I have 8 so far)

and then

> PageMaker or Full(vapor)Write.  With indexing, columns, and some graphics 

Just wondering about this (relative) slam on FullWrite.

Their ad in March MacUser (the one with *two* reviews of Word) is
very, very impressive, at a lower list price.

I called them up a week ago, and got an April release month, which
they seemed very firm about.

Let's be fair, boys.


Clive

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