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Article #41509Re: A different WORD 4.0 subject
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 20:32
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 20:32
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> How is word 4.0's SPEED compared to 3.0.x ?
>Weeks back, I had to chance to fiddle around with a beta version of
>WORD. I found its speed was slow that it could not KEEP up with my
>typing ( no, I am not a fast typist, at around 60 words per minute max).
I don't have a problem with Word 4's speed. It seems to be somewhat faster
than Word 3 in galley (non page view mode, which is my preferred mode. I
generally do my editing/formatting in separate passes). I run on a 512Ke
upgraded to 2Meg with a Dove upgrade at home, and even with that slow
processor I never noticed Word falling behind me, even though I type
80-120WPM. On my Mac IIx at work, there's obviously no performance problem
at all.
While I have brought up Word 4 on a standard 512ke, I didn't play with it
enough to see what performance problems the reduced memory might cause. If
you're working from floppies and not a hard disk, that'll really slow things
down, but I'm not sure I'd blame Word for that.
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