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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 16 Jan 91 17:31:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.054633.14564@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>In article <42520@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>>Word 4.0 requires a 512k partition.  I just flipped over to the Finder, launched
>>Word with a 512k partition and opened a 540k text file.   Took about 2 seconds 
>>to open and no time to use the scroll bar to get to any part of the file. 
>>
>>The default partition size for an app is 384k, but good programmers will put in
>>a smaller setting if their program can get by in less.  I just pulled up the
>>partition size info for a dozen utilities and they range from 128k to 700.
>
>You miss the point.  You must do a bunch of operations to change an APP's 
>partition size.  And you cannot change it while the app is running.  And
>if you use a 384K or 512K partition for you Word 4.0, you can't load a big
>document into it.

"bunch of operations"?  Select icon.  Type command-I.  Select numeber in text 
field and type new number.  Run applicaion.  It takes a second or so to quit 
the application and maybe several seconds to restart.

Uh, what exactly do you call a big document?  I said I opened a 540k file in
Word set with a 512k partition.  I don't think it is all that shabby to work
with a 680k program, 540k data file, and 400-odd k of dictionary and help files
in a 512k partition.  I know it sounds awkward to mess with partitions, but it
ain't.

Would I prefer the greater flexibility of the Amiga?  Yes.  Would I trade some
of the features I have on my setup to get it (rhetoricaly, natch)?  Maybe.  The
only way I'll ever really know is if I can compare my setup with an Amiga setup
of someone who does much of the same kinds of tasks that I do.