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From: bobw@hpsad.HP.COM (Bob Waltenspiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect on the 520ST
Message-ID: <750011@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 16:13:43 GMT
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/ hpsad:comp.sys.atari.st / TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) / 11:55 pm  May 10, 1989 /
>I ran WordPerfect/ST on a 512K 520ST for about one year. I can
>assure you that such a setup..(no hard drive by the way) will
>work with documents at least 30 pages in length. (double spaced)
>Did it all the time...with no problems.  I suspect that if someone
>was getting only ten pages on a 512K system then s/he had a lot
>of desk acc.s eating up RAM.
>Don't get me wrong...WP/ST *is* a memory hog.  Using it on a 512K
>system is not very fun.  The spell checker will work at a crawl..
>if it will run at all...and having multiple documents open at once
>is next to impossible.  It does work though..and it's not as
>limited as past messages would have you believe.  I managed many
>term papers on a 512K machine.  But I was sure to upgrade to a
>1040 when it came time to do my thesis. :)
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I made the original comment about WP only being able to do about
10 pages.  I beleive your right about RAM being eaten up, but it's not
by desk accesories but by the harddisk driver.  I don't use any desk
accessories when using WP, yet I am unable to use the spell checker because
of memory problems.  Any day now I'll get my memory expanded but I just
wanted to let others know of my limitations.

bw

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