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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TurboText demo
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Date: 26 Mar 91 12:08:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar24.123126.7535@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>, Ed Wilts writes:

> I may have to actually break down and replace my trusty TxEd with TurboText. 
> My biggest complaing about TurboText is its size.  TxEd is 24k, whereas
> TurboText is over 160K.  On memory tight systems, there are times some files
> simply can't be edited.  I suspect (but haven't proven yet), that TurboText may
> also be using more working memory than TxEd for the same file.

<Trying hard not to flame ...>

Be reasonable.  A fully featured editor has to do a hell of a lot more than
what TxEd does. Paying the price of having the editor chew up a measly 130K
more than what you're used to, seems, to me, to be a pittance. Anyone who's
serious about using an Amiga will have at least 2.5Mb, and preferably 5Mb of
memory anyway.

I haven't yet seen Turbotext, but since I'm very used to Cygnus Ed, and I
really really like it, I don't think I'll be swapping [I've got heaps of faith
in Martin's ability to produce good code though - his M2Sprint compiler is my
compiler of choice, and it's terrific].

Just another user's opinion.
[as if anything else on the net is different!]

Dac
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