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From: ted@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel V2.2 Anyone?
Message-ID: <2794@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 20:43:57 GMT
References: <470002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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From article <470002@hpdml93.HP.COM>, by kmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko):
> I just wanted to check to see if anyone has gotten the Excel V2.2
> UPGRADE yet (remember that?).  I'm afraid that Microsoft may be 
> pulling another Symantec w.r.t. upgrades (i.e. in the spirit of
> Lightspeed C v3.0...sending out new shrink wrap originals before
> the upgrades; making old users wait months for the new version).
> ...

Got my upgrade notice around the first of June and sent it in the next day
with credit card payment for the upgrade price from version 1.5.  Just got
the upgrade on July 11, 1989 -- about six weeks.  The fragmented memory
problem has been solved, apparently, since I can now load Excel 2.2 on
my 8MB Mac II after running almost anything I want.  (almost, since I
haven't tried everything yet).  It also appears that Excel 2.2 files will
frequently consume less disk space than their 1.5 versions, with no changes
in content of the file.  I also got the Wingz upgrade to provide a wider
basis for performance and feature comparison.  Excel 2.2 files are sometimes
smaller than Wingz files for the same content; other cases 2.2 files are
larger than Wingz.  The differences in disk size range from 10% to 55% in
my sample population.  Wingz should really have used a syntax for file name
references that was more like the MacOS allows, since their severe restriction
constrains not only file names but precludes references to files in folders
other than the one that is currently open.  Excel 2.2, like 1.5, doesn't have
this problem.  My impression so far is that Excel is slower by far in saving
and loading -- Wingz seems to accomplish both in almost lightning fashion.

TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper
aka Ted Jardine  CFI-ASME/I
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TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper
aka Ted Jardine  CFI-ASME/I
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