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From: verber@apatosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The FullWrite 1 Meg controversy
Keywords: FullWrite
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Date: 27 May 88 14:13:45 GMT
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In article <54570@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>You can run Fullwrite on a 1Megabyte machine. If, however, you start
>slogging in INITs, startup screens and the kitchen sink, you no longer have
>a 1Megabyte machine. Depending on how many INIT's you use, you could in fact
>have a 600K or 700K machine, and FullWrite won't work with that.
>

I guess you can say that Fullwrite will run on a 1MB machine, but I would say
that it just barely runs.  Before I dropped in extra memory (5MB total) into
my MacII I had only 1MB of RAM.  I was running System 4.2.  The only INIT I
was using was Suitcase.

When I openned a document I had written earlier (2 pages w/ 2 column) I got
a message that said 'Don't add anything to your longest chapter'.  Well there
was only one chapter (i.e. my document).  This bothered my a lot.  Now I must
say that I did some editing, and that I did extend the 'longest chapter'
without any problems, but I did worry me.  I don't think that running FW
in a 1100K partition is at all like running it on a strait 1MB machine.

Something I found interesting though was the fact that the same document had
no problems on my MacPlus at work.  Looks like FW was specifically shoehorned
into a MacPlus.

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