FWP gratuitously eats memory

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From: Tom Huras
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 02:03

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We all know that FullWrtie Professional (version 1.1) can be a slug
on large documents.  (I was using it recently because I find it a lot
faster than Interleaf on an Apollo system at my client's).

However, on a 10 chapter, 70 page document, with 1.6 Meg of RAM to itself,
it gradually ate more and more memory (I was watching it with the 
"About Finder" window).  Now, I wasn't doing anything in FWP, my hands
weren't touching the keyboard or the mouse.  The bar graph showed about
half of the memory taken, and then, over a period of about 3 minutes,
worked itself up to a notch from full usage.  

Meanwhile, FWP said it had 80% of its memory free!

Does anyone have an explanation? a work-around?  I especially disliked
how it lost characters as I was typing.  Being slow is bad, loosing
keyboard input is inexcusable.
-- 
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  therefore get wisdom.      | 33 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1G4
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               Proverbs 4:7  | Disclaimer: These are only my opinions...

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From: tom@ghp.UUCP (Tom Huras)
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Subject: FWP gratuitously eats memory
Keywords: FullWrite Professional
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Date: 11 Jan 90 02:03:23 GMT
Organization: Gellman Hayward & Partners Ltd.
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