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From: jsaker@zeus.unl.edu (Jamie Saker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Appleworks GS
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Date: 9 Mar 89 06:25:00 GMT
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Robert Brown writes...

>AppleWorks GS kind of sucks. I am not blaming the machine for that, I am
>blaming the people who wrote it. I still prefer Apw 2.0. Apw GS takes too long
>to load, to print a four to five page document take about 30 minutes. Thats
>because it prints in graphics mode. It would seem to me that if Claris was
>supporting the Apple // line they would release more than one product. You
>guys seem to have your heads stuck in the Mac. Not that I don't like the Mac,
>I just don't see much else than Apw comming out for the //s. It also
>overpriced for what you get, but I still like the program.

    It seems like you seem a bit confused as to what you want in a program.
If you want all the features and power Appleworks GS offers, then you 
either have to put up with the shortcomings the machine has (namely
SPEED and memory) or do something about it (Transwarp GS).
 
    If speed and simplicity was your concern, then why not stick with
Appleworks 2.0 or another word processing program? It flys on the gs...

    I agree, however, that Claris seems to have rushed the product a bit.
We waited 15 minutes for it to print to the laserwriter and it crashed right
when it started printing (Aarg!).  Next try it worked (it wasn't our setup).

    You can't blame them for trying to write a powerful package for a 
severely restricted machine.
 
 
        COME ON APPLE....GIVE US SOME SPEED!!!!
 
 
>Robert Brown
>BitNet: RXBROWN@UALR
>APPLELINK: ROBPHD 

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