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From: jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MS Word slow on MacIIsi
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Date: 25 Nov 90 03:46:46 GMT
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A colleague has just replaced his Mac+ with a MacIIsi and noticed
some strange behavior:  

  1) If he cuts a single word and then pastes it back into the document,
     and then does a 'save', the save process is noticably slower than
     it is/was on the Mac+.  The percentage window goes something like
     20-30-40-50-60-70-80-99-100 on the MacIIsi and more like 50-100
     on the +.

  2) In 'print_preview', trying to scroll -backward- through a document
     is terribly slow.  Scrolling forward is fine.

We tried adjusting application size (in the "get info" box) and that
didn't have any effect.  Haven't messed with the RAM cache yet.  Using
MS Word 4.0c.  Other than the two problems listed, the MacIIsi is much
faster than the Plus.  Any ideas?



Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA  52240