Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!gargoyle!sphinx!ogil
From: ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Wesley Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional
Message-ID: <4266@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 20 May 88 08:08:14 GMT
References: <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Wesley Harding)
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc.
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In article <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com> long@colors.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!) writes:
>Hi everyone,
>
>  After reading all the enthusiasm about FullWrite Professional:
>
>  It sounds nice, but...
[...]
>  I also understand that FWP doesn't even run on a 1MB Mac.  DOESN'T 
>THIS BOTHER ANYBODY EITHER???!?!!?

>Rich

It runs fine on my 1 MB SE and a 20 MB SCSI drive (how's that for acronyms?)

Lest anyone say that I may be able to run it but can't do much work, I have
a 41,000 word novel in one FWP file right now. I expect it to be 80,000 or so
when finished, and I think I won't have many problems. My chapters are about 
10 pages of single-spaced 12 point Palatino each. The only speed problem I've
noticed is that it takes a few seconds to swap memory when I scroll between 
chapters.

Of course, I plan to get a memory upgrade this summer :-)

I'm also going to write a fairly long essay on experimental biology during the
summer. FWP looks right now like it's going to do the job quite well. The 
sidebars and pictures will be wonderful for diagrams and tables. Much nicer
than Word or Word Perfect.

-- 
Brian "My middle name is Wendell" Ogilvie
ogil@sphinx.uchicago.edu "Home of the Goofy Nicknames"
  "Cartesianism is the most popular `popular science' ever created."
					--Noel Swerdlow