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From: gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan)
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Subject: Re: 80 col. word pros?
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Date: 10 Sep 90 01:54:44 GMT
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In article <1990Sep9.141926.25790@contact.uucp> rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:
=>
=>Along the same lines, does anyone know of any word pro for the 8-bits
=>that fully uses extended memory?  I've heard talk that PaperClip does,
=>but only as a Ramdisk.  [...]

   PaperClip supports up to 256K 8-bits. On an unmodified 130XE it should give
you about 80K of work space. On a 256K or greater XL/XE, Half of the extended
RAM is used to store the spell checker, which speeds thinks up quite a bit,
and the rest (80-90K) is work space. One note: my Newell Industries 256KXL
had some quirks made PaperClip think it only had 128K. (Soultion: scopy the
spell checker to an MIO RAMdisk and make it drive 2. Just as fast, and doesn't
go away when the computer loses power.)

                                        Gary Duzan
                                        Time  Lord
                                    Third Regeneration



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