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From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word slow on MacIIsi
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.091743.10101@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 26 Nov 90 09:17:43 GMT
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In article <3294@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> 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 +.

If you want a fair compare, you should do a "Save As..." to avoid a "fast 
save".  Sometimes Word uses a "fast save", sometimes it rebuilds the whole 
file.  That _might_ have been the reason.

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