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From: pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager)
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Date: 22 Sep 89 23:25:04 GMT
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Roger Espinosa writes:
>> Word Processors that *need* 1024K? C'mon.
   It used to be possible in 64K.            <<

How true.  My TRS-80 Model 1 had a word processor every bit as powerful as
most high-end IBM programs back in 1984.  And it ran circles for formatting
flexibility around most of them as well.  Total memory required: 32K.  Optimal
memory: 48K.
  You couldn't go any higher than that anyway...One would think that with most
of the "hard stuff" there in the ROMs, behemoth's like PageMaker would be
down-right difficult to write!  To be so loosely coded...hmph.
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