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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Status of MS Word 4.0
Message-ID: <960@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:53:59 GMT
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Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <83416@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>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.
>
>The current beta of 4.0 is very stable. Also, from what I can tell, faster
>than 3.01.

This sounds great, Chuq.  Can you tell us whether it's suffered from
``program bloat'', a la Ready,Set,Go! 4.5?  For those who don't know,
RSG is a wonderful program, but jumped in size from around 220K in
version 4.0 to over 500K in version 4.5.  Unfortunately, while 4.5
is much better than 4.0, it isn't twice as good....

On the other hand, at least it, unlike PageMaker, can still be
fit on a floppy disk....

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