Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite
Message-ID: <424@stech.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 12:46:01 GMT
References: <943@usfvax2.UUCP>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 31

in article <943@usfvax2.UUCP>, pollock@usfvax2.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) says:
> 
> There has been some feedback from the beta tester on this product.  None
> of them have said whether FullWrite is fast or slow.  On the one hand,
> the product has so many features, and is properly written (so as to be
> compatible/protable), you'd think it would have to be slow.  On the other
> hand, I believe the developer would never release a product if it was too
> slow.  Any comments from those who have played around with it?

The speed seems to vary with which machine (read that - which type of
hard disk) I'm using.  When I use it on the machine with the HD 20, it's
a bit slower than on the machine with the HD20 SCSI.  I assume this is
because so much of the program resides on disk during execution.  For
example, whenever I open a picture it brings in an overlay.  Nonetheless,
it is acceptably fast on either machine.  I'm a pretty fast typist, and
can't out-type it.  Disk I/O is acceptable on either machine.

The one thing I haven't tried is using a RAM cache on the 2 Meg machine.
Has anybody played with that?


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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