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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word slow on MacIIsi
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Date: 25 Nov 90 23:58:25 GMT
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jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>  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.

Both of those operations are disk intensive. Rather than the problem being
with the IIsi, maybe it is the hard disk. Things to check for

1) It is optomized (defragmented) and in good shape.
2) Is it formatted for the si correctly?

One big thing to look out for: Did he use the hard drive on the plus?
Did he reformat this hard drive for the si? If not, then it has a MacPlus
interleave and not an SI interleave and that will just slow everything down.

I, too, just switched up to a IIsi from a plus and have noticed only
speed increases. (And when my FPU finally arrives...)

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

-Andy

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