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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Word-processors for UNIX
Message-ID: <17@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 2 Aug 90 19:21:12 GMT
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dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:

>> We have Word Putrid running on our 3b2/1000's under SVR3.2. "Ugly"
>> doesn't even come close to describing it ...

>Again, "ugly" verses your favorite, which is ???

troff. (You were expecting me to say "WGS" maybe? ;-)

W.P. is a pig for system resources. Try running a couple of spell
checks in parallel on the above machines. We have one of them
dedicated to running W.P. jobs. It's configured with 4 CPU's.
Can you say "MIPS?" Well, running a pair of W.P. spell jobs is
sufficient to bring the machine to its knees. I'm not impressed :-(

Besides, I administer the mailers around here. Ever seen sendmail
try to deal with a WP document file :-(

Gotta go, the card reader's ready for the next stack ...

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     Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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