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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Appleworks GS advice sought
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:23:14 GMT
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In article <94606@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar) writes:
>I am a moderately heavy user of AWGS too, and I'd really like to see an
>upgrade, even though I didn't get the last upgrade (1.1?) since it didn't sound
>like any significant improvements.  Is there anywhere where you can suggest
>ideas for upgrades and be listened to.
>And, Apple/Claris, are you still working on AWGS or is it dead?

	Not any significant improvements??

	If I'm correct, which I think I am (or roughly so on this issue),
AppleWorks GS loads an order of magnitude faster.. I don't have AppleWorks
GS, so I can't tell for sure... But I believe that it was advertized that
AppleWorks GS now loads in ~15 seconds for all modules off of a hard
disk (obviously with System 5.0x and using QuickLoad/FastLoad/whatever-it's-
called)...
	So lets just double that to 30 seconds (so that I'm not taking the
absolute minimum time)... 10* that would be 300 seconds, or 5 minutes..
	Isn't it true that it used to take ~5 minutes to preload all modules?
If that's way off, we can take the 15 second time, and 10* that would be
2.5 minutes.. I'm much more sure it took at least 2.5 minutes.

	An order of magnitude in loading sure seems like one hell of an
improvement to me!  Plus I believe it was faster in some modules but I don't
remember in which ones or for what exact functions.

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