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From: close@cacilj.UUCP (Diane Barlow Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect slowdown
Message-ID: <1001@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 16:38:46 GMT
References: <3274@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: close@cacilj.UUCP (Diane Barlow Close)
Organization: CACI, Inc. - Federal, La Jolla, CA
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> (details about WordPerfect slowdown deleted)

I have experienced the same problem at various times.  I was told that it 
is due to a ``bug'' in the ST TOS that can't handle mouse and keyboard
interrupts if they occur ``too close together''.  When this happens, the 
ST freezes and crashes or you experience drastic slowdown.  This ``bug'' 
in TOS is supposed to be well documented on Genie.  WordPerfect representatives
claim they've brought up the problem with Atari several times, and each time 
Atari claims that the problem is completely new to them, and act like they 
have never seen it before.

This same bug has caused me to think that I was crazy:  three times while 
running WordPerfect over the last year the machine froze and very slowly 
printed either ``he he he he he he he'' or ``ho ho ho ho ho ho'' at the 
bottom of my screen and crashed.  After the third time I finally got up the
courage to report the bug (can you see the customer support guy's face-- or
hear him laughing?! :-) and that's when WP told me I wasn't crazy and that
this had happened *to them* before.  

If it is a TOS bug I sure hope it gets fixed!  (I now save quite frequently
to avoid losing hours of work).
-- 
Diane Barlow Close
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