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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Status of MS Word 4.0
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Date: 1 Jan 89 06:33:12 GMT
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In article <482@nikhefk.UUCP> paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) writes:
>I've had a pre-release of Word 4.0 which was fairly full of bugs
>and immensely slow due to the fact the all their P-Machine debugging
>code was still in the program. MS-Word 4.0 will, or so it seems, still
>be running on a P-Code interpreter. I wonder how they will speed up
>the program compared to Word 3.0x (which was interpreted P-Code as well).

As to the delay in Word 4.0's release, I can't say; I doubt it is "excessive
bugs", as I know a beta tester who has used various beta versions instead of
Word 3.02 for some time now, and has had nary a crash.  My personal
suspicion is that Microsoft is trying to be very, very careful; after the
fiasco with Word 3.0, people will be shining all sorts of lights into 4.0
when it's released.

As to P-code, the early (and perhaps present) beta releases were done in
P-code, and were thus slower than regular versions (the one I saw
demonstrated in June, however, was pretty durn fast on a Mac SE).  However,
neither 3.0x nor the 4.0 release version is in interperted P-code (unless
Microsoft is making one heck of a dramatic change for 4.0!).

Gee... Ashton-Tate might actually release FullWrite 2.0 near to 4.0's
release date....
                        ...nah!  :-)

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