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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Word Processor
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.231208.3773@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 13 Oct 89 23:12:08 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
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In article <89Oct13.104618edt.10808@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) writes:
>>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?
>
>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.  

My wife uses Word on a Z-181 portable with two floppies, and finds it quite
usable.  The Z-181 has a switch to speed it up from 4.77MHz to 9MHz at some
loss in battery life, but we haven't felt the need to use it.  She's not
usually editing terribly long documents, but after the admittedly slow startup
it feels pretty snappy.

I have the impression that the latest version of WP has gotten so big that
it doesn't fit on floppies any more.  Is this true?  I can fit Word and its
spell checker and DOS on a 720K floppy.
-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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