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From: bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Word Processor
Message-ID: <89Oct13.104618edt.10808@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 14:47:08 GMT
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drv@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (dennis.r.vogel) writes:

>Now that Ka Chin Wong has found his word processor and I have learned
>a lot about the differences between Word and WP, I have a followup
>question.  Without rehashing the Word/WP comparison, which of the
>two would be better on a Toshiba T1000 laptop without a mouse and
>without a hard disk or the RAM card?

I`m one of those really dedicated Word fans who thinks anyone who
still uses Word Perfect is letting themselves in for more trouble 
than they have to.  HOWEVER, I have to admit that Word is not the
fastest program in the world, and Word Perfect is a very fast word
processor.  My experience with the two programs suggests that running
Word on anything less than an AT with a reasonably fast hard disk
is painful, while Word Perfect remains respectably fast on PCs.  
(Could still be painful with a floppy...  I once set someone elses
machine up for Word Perfect on a RAMdisk with two floppies, and
that worked very well...)

					(-:  Brad  :-)