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From: austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: Word Processor
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Date: 13 Oct 89 15:09:19 GMT
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On 13 Oct 89 14:47:08 GMT,
bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) said:
>> 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...)

  I am a satisfied WP user and I do have complaints about other word
processors, but I think that WP would be the better for a laptop.  The
reason for this is that it is almost entirely based upon the function keys,
and laptops in general have the function keys *real* close to the rest of
the keyboard.  If you are used to other programs, some keyboard
redefinition will be necessary, but it is not a big problem to learn how to
use this feature because WPCorp includes three sample keyboard definitions.
I don't think you will have any big problems making WP 5.0 the word
processor you want.

    Austin Ziegler
austin@bucsf.bu.edu
700 Commonwealth Avenue Box 2094
Boston, MA  02215