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From: anson@elrond.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac System Suggestions?
Message-ID: <821@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 09:30:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: elrond.821
Posted: Fri May  1 09:30:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 01:23:35 EDT
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Reply-To: anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson, NH, USA
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In article <324@swanee.OZ> gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes:
>In article <692@unccvax.UUCP>, cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes:
>> 
>> 	Tell me this Joe, why does MS Word take 7 minutes to repaginate a
>> 91k document on a MAC Plus, and another 3 to save the document. I hate to
>> think what will happen when my thesis is 300 pages, let alone 61 measly
>> pages. I am not sure about other users out there, but for me, the MAC II
>> can not arrive soon enough.  Hopefully that machine will reduce disk I/O
>> by 80%.
>> 
>It's not a productive idea to use wysiwyg for writing 300 pages long
>documents like books or theses. To use TeX or troff is much faster and
>easier.

I beg to differ!  To me, the larger (and more complex) the document is, the
more important it is to have wysiwyg.  Having done it both ways, I feel
confident in that opinion.

As for the time required to load and store large documents: That's rather
unfortunate.  But you needn't spend all that money for a faster computer
just for that reason.  Simply break the document into a separate file per
chapter, and most of your problems are solved with a lot less expense.  If
you bought the Word 3.0 upgrade (of course, you did), you can easily chain
the separate documents together for printing.  Of course, if you're looking
for an excuse to buy the Mac II... :-)  Generally, I've found that most
problems can be solved better by smarter software than by faster hardware.
(Not always -- just usually.)  Anybody at Microsoft listening?
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