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Article #40678Re: NISUS wordprocessor
From: Gary Davis
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 16:03
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 16:03
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> How does Nisus perform on a Mac Plus or SE? Is it usable in 1 Meg? > Can it run in a reasonably small Multifinder partition like Word can? > It sounds like it might be a really good word/text processor, but > if it's going to be a resource hog like Fullwrite, I'm not sure it's > worth it. > Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, I've edited a 250 k file on a 1 meg Mac II with no problem. A friend tested a smaller file (70 k I think) on a MacPlus and found most functions, scrolling, searching, etc, to be about 3 times faster than MS Word with the same file. Files are held entirely in memory, however, so there will be limits. It's definitely not the hog that FullWrite is, on the other hand. Gary Davis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!gdavis From: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor Message-ID: <184@indri.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 11 Apr 89 16:03:25 GMT References: <1134@esquire.UUCP> Sender: news@primate.wisc.edu Reply-To: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu Lines: 14