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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Message-ID: <1134@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 14:56:11 GMT
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Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <21081@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>In some ways Nisus is superior to both Word and FullWrite, but I guess
>FullWrite is better, if you have a Mac II & at least 2 MB RAM. I hope
>they get the bugs out of FullWrite. Nisus seems to be pretty stable,
>but it does have a few "features" (changing from inches to centimeters
>doesn't immediately update the rulers!)

How does Nisus perform on a Mac Plus or SE?  Is it usable in 1 Meg?
Can it run in a reasonably small Multifinder partition like Word can?
It sounds like it might be a really good word/text processor, but
if it's going to be a resource hog like Fullwrite, I'm not sure it's
worth it.

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