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From: graff@mlpvm2.iinus1.ibm.com (Michael Graff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Geoworks Ensemble
Message-ID: <9102181855.AA02991@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 18:46:18 GMT
Reply-To: graff@mlpvm2.iinus1.ibm.com
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I'm running Ensemble on my laptop with a 40M hard disk.  It's a great
package.  I've heard of people trying to squeeze it onto a 1.44M
floppy.  As I understand it, a large part of Ensemble is the fonts.
They also keep around a lot of display and printer drivers that you
don't need.  So if you could trim that out, you might make it fit.
You would probably need to start by installing it on a hard disk, then
trimming out files, then move the trimmed version to a diskette.

I suspect the performance on a floppy wouldn't be very good.  GEOS
(the underlying operating system for Ensemble) is fairly
disk-intensive, swapping programs in and out, loading objects from
disk, and so on.  So while it might be made to fit, I'm not sure it
would be worth the trouble, due to the performance.

...Michael