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From: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis)
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Subject: Re: Nisus v. MS Word -- Different Question
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Date: 24 Apr 91 06:18:59 GMT
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From article <1991Apr24.010713.3696@milton.u.washington.edu>, by owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen):
> smithc@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Christopher Smith) asked about Nisus
> vs. Word...

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>>        *  is Nisus relatively fast, specifically with the spell-
>>           checking, searching, and search/replace?
> Basic interface is OK on 68030 machines, but unusably slow on a Mac Plus. I
> suspect an "SE" or "classic" would also be painful. Search and replace and
> spell checking seem  fine to me, but I've not timed them compared to Word.
> Nisus' spell-checking suggests alternate spellings so quickly it's almost
> instantaneous, making Word's suggest look sick.

A friend of mine has both Word and Nisus on his MacPlus. Except for tables,
he generally prefers Nisus and finds it as fast or faster than Word for most
things. He's a pretty fast typist, though not the fastest, and he doesn't
have any serious problem with Nisus' speed, though it might be a little
easier to get ahead of the program typing than with Word. Nisus is definitely
slower at deleting (backspacing) and, on a MacPlus, the text cursor has a
tendency to disappear during typing.

Gary Davis