Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!MARKS-ROGER From: MARKS-ROGER@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Macwrite on the Sac Message-ID: <8701161703.AA13294@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 12:03:30 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701161703.AA13294 Posted: Fri Jan 16 12:03:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 04:10:10 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 Dale asks for first-hand confirmation that Macwrite runs on the Magic Sac. Yes. Macwrite 2.2 does run, without any problems apparent to me. Macwrite 4.5 does not run. Documents written in 4.5 cannot be read in formatted form by 2.2, but 2.2 documents can be read by 4.5. This information is valid for the latest version of the Sac software, posted 1/7/87 on Compuserve (Sac version 3.5). The Sac runs quite a few useful programs, but it can be quite frustrating. It crashes too often, and restarts take longer than I'm used to with the ST. Plus, it's a Macintosh, of the pre-Mac Plus variety, and that means you need to have the patience of a ST. On the positive side, programs that run usually do so consistently once you find out what to avoid, many run quickly in a ramdisk, and David Small et. al. seem to be continually improving the thing and keeping their customers up to date. In running the Sac, I've found out a little about the Mac and why it spends so much time on disc access. It's those windows and icons--it has to store infomation on all the icons and where they are in the window. I remember initial complaints about the Desktop to the effect that icons refused to stay where you put them. With the time you save, you could rearrange them yourself. >>Roger Marks -------