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From: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect slowdown
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Date: 11 May 89 20:27:08 GMT
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In article <3274@cs.dal.ca> silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>Can anyone shed light on the drastic slowdown that I sometimes get with
>WordPerfect, which WP programmers claim is a TOS problem.  The symptoms
>are an incredible delay, sometimes 5 min. to respond to a single
>keystroke or mouse press.  It can strike any time, and then all you can
>do is take 5 or 10 minutes to save your work and reboot, which usually
>brings the system up OK.  WP says the problem usually happens after the
>machine has been on for a while, but I just had it happen last night
>when I started the system cold.  They claim it happens with other
>software, but I have seen it only with WP.
>
>I am running a pretty old 1 Meg. 520 booting from a Supra 60.  Idle 1.2
>is installed, no other TSR's.

I just had the same problem last night - using FirstWord Plus.  It took
5 minutes to save the file so I could reboot, and my document was only
17 pages doublespaced.  I this is the first time I've run into the problem,
and the only unusual thing I could think of was that I had the computer
on for quite a while, while doing a lot of heavy editing.
I was running a Mega 2 with Snapshot installed.
My guess would be that the garbage collection/memory allocation routines
are fucked up?
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