Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!derosa
From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MS Word 4.0b and ATM 2.0
Message-ID: <4608@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 17:22:07 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I just receive ATM 2.0.  I tested it with a simple
MS word document to see how much faster it was and
found that is appeared twice as fast.

Test         Time to open document
====         =====================
no ATM       16 sec
ATM 1.2      42 sec
ATM 2.0      26 sec

Interestingly, I found that closing the document and 
reopening it resulted in times of 16 seconds for 
each test.  This is caused by ATM already having all
the fonts built up in memory.  The extra time 
in the initial openning of the document is in 
retrieving the fonts from disk.  On a Plus this
is very slow what with 3:1 interleave and the slow
SCSI Interface.

This points up the efficient use of the ATM font
cache.  If you have a small cache, ATM will purge
it to make room for more fonts.  This slows
things down when you access the first font again.
I keep my cache set at 416k.  Anyone else have
a better number?

QUESTION: The ATM 2.0 readme file states that 
I should be using MS Word 4.0b with an ImageWriter
II to get proper font spacing.  

Has anyone seen V4.0b?  We just received about
20 copies of MS Word and every one is V4.0
according to the about.... or the get info.