Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!MTSUNIX1!IPHWK From: iphwk@MTSUNIX1.BITNET (Bill Kinnersley) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wp50-l Subject: WP 5.1 - Is it slow? Message-ID: <9002042342.AA05789@terra.oscs.montana.edu> Date: 4 Feb 90 23:42:49 GMT Sender: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Reply-To: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Lines: 23 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.3 6/25/88) Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was In the newspaper column "Personal Computers", Peter McWilliams makes the following remarks about WP 5.1: "On the minus side, version 5.1 runs more slowly compared to 5.0. It is not so noticeable when writing text only on a fast computer (a 286 or 386 machine), but it is apparent on older-generation computers (XTs and any 8088- or 8086-based machine) or if you are using graphics on any computer. Considering that most people have the older-generation machines, this is a problem. "A friend of mine who has a 286 computer was printing out a graphic- laden file that he made using 5.0. With 5.0, it took him three minutes to print it. With 5.1, it took 11 minutes. Something is slowing down graphics too." Can anyone with version 5.1 confirm such a large difference in speed for this type of application? Or is McWilliams wrong? -- --Bill Kinnersley Physics Department Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717 INTERNET: iphwk@terra.oscs.montana.edu BITNET: IPHWK@MTSUNIX1 226 Transfer complete.