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Article #15768Re: Mac System Suggestions?
From: carl m benda
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1987 15:56
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1987 15:56
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In article <3124@sunybcs.UUCP>, jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) writes: > In article <690@unccvax.UUCP> cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes: > > Consider a problem I ran into trying to change the font of a > >32 page document using MAC Write and a MAC Plus. It took the machine > >over 30 minutes to change the font from Geneva to Monaco. > > Your problem is that you would even c o n s i d e r using MacWrite > for a n y word processing operation. :-) > Tell me this Joe, why does MS Word take 7 minutes to repaginate a 91k document on a MAC Plus, and another 3 to save the document. I hate to think what will happen when my thesis is 300 pages, let alone 61 measly pages. I am not sure about other users out there, but for me, the MAC II can not arrive soon enough. Hopefully that machine will reduce disk I/O by 80%. /Carl ...mcnc!unccvax!cbenda The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules....
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!unccvax!cbenda From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac System Suggestions? Message-ID: <692@unccvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 11:56:25 EDT Article-I.D.: unccvax.692 Posted: Sun Apr 26 11:56:25 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 23:34:41 EDT References: <804@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> <76000009@uiucdcsp> <690@unccvax.UUCP> <3124@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Lines: 20 Summary: tell me this?