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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: window386 && their WORD
Keywords: SLOW
Message-ID: <6728@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 90 17:14:03 GMT
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In article <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> yjkim@milton.acs.washington.edu (Yong Kim) writes:
>I have tried to use MS WORD 5.0 for Window this afternoon to realize
>that it's working so slow on PS-2 55SX (836SX) with 30 Mbytes.
>What is the problem?  Is the problem related to the WINDOW 386?
>Or to the one inherent in WORD for Window.   Basically, I like their
>new interface - trying to be MacLike, but I cannot bear with their
>slow response.  It took around 2 sec to shift a one pageful of text
>to the right! (well let's say between 1 to 2 secs).

I also started out using Windows Word on an IBM 55SX (although I had the
faster and larger 60MB hard disk on mine) and found Windows Word slow. The
first factor is the inherently slow nature of Microsoft Windows. The next
factors are the size of the Windows Word overlay (ove 800K as I recall) and
the speed of the hard disk from which parts of the overlay is called and
retrieved.

I recently switched to a 25MHz 386 and can finally use Windows and Windows
Word without experiencing a lot of delays between actions....

BTW... My big grump about Windows Word is that it does not import
spreadsheet file formats from Lotus and Excel as well as the older Word 5.0
does. Windows Word loses all formatting information when the file is
imported into a document. E.g., trailing zeros from a number lik 250.00 is
lost....todd
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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
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