Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!rknop From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: For those interested in GeoWorks... Message-ID: <1991Apr21.065800.24971@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 06:58:00 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 27 lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) writes: > Functionally it is very fast, multitasks smoothly and >unnoticeably, An unfortunate trend in modern computing is that since memory is cheap, and available in large quantities, nobody bothers to write tight code any more. What used to take a matter of K on a computer now takes a matter of Megs. (How many Megs must your Mac have to use system 7.0?) However, from what I've heard, geoWorks is the one company that actually writes efficient code for the PC. Which probably has a lot to do with their having "grown up," so to speak, doing amazing things on Commodore 8 bit computers. I can't help but believe, though that this efficiency isn't just gratuitous. Eventually they will be able to do more with the system if they start writing it efficiently. (And people with only 1 Meg will actually have some memory left after loading the system in.) >As far as the included applications...they're nice, but a little >lacking in features. geoWrite doesn't have a search&replace function, >no spellchecker, no footnotes/endnotes, and limited headers and >footers. Of coure, we all remember the difference between the Commdores' geoWrite 1.1 and geoWrite 2.1.... geoWorks'll come through on this count, I expect. -Rob Knop rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu