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In article <1713@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes:

>There is no way that a "state-of-the-art" word processor needs more than a
>megabyte of memory on the Mac.  Properly segmented, FWP should be able to
>run on a one meg Mac Plus.  Those with larger memories would experience
>better performance due to less purging of segments, but everyone with at
>least a meg should be able to use the program.

Umm...excuse me...I'm not sure if I'm getting the gist of this discussion
or not. Are you all saying that FullWrite *doesn't* run in 1 meg? My 1 meg
SE will be surprised to hear that. I think the problem here is that people
are expecting it to run *under Multifinder* *and* with all the neat gizmos
they have running with their Systems. If I run FWP with my usual mega-
system, a few features of FWPare unavailable; if I use a plain vanilla system,
it works fine. Let's not let the tide of rising expectations caused by all
this new stuff sweep away a product like FWP just because it takes the lion's
share of your Mac's power to run.

Derek [23 days] LeLash '88

     Derek LeLash '88       |"People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles
 Derek.LeLash@Dartmouth.EDU |   of my shoes
----------------------------| Well, that's one way to lose these walking blues
 (Grand Old Senior at last) | Diamonds on the soles of my shoes."