Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!logicon.arpa!trantor.harris-atd.com!trantor!dsampson From: dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: window386 && their WORD Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 90 15:07:42 GMT References: <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> <542@cpqhou.UUCP> <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Organization: Harris Gov't Aerospace Systems Division Lines: 54 In-reply-to: yjkim@milton.acs.washington.edu's message of 23 Feb 90 20:28:03 GMT 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). > Any comment, wait for the new release? Two things will affect how Word for Windows runs: 1) Your processor speed 2) Whether you have extended memory The more speed, the better. I think that Word for Windows is better suited for a 386 instead of a 286 (because of the speed considerations). I'm running it on a 10MHz 286 at work and think its a little sluggish. I've ordered a Gateway 20MHz 386 (for home), and expect tremendous improvements because of the processor speed increase. One thing that will get immediate and dramatic results independent of what kind of machine you own, is to run SmartDrive (if you have expanded memory). Without SmartDrive, you will spend alot of time waiting while the program keeps crunching away at your disk. In general, I think that the program is excellent. It's definitely a superset of Word 5.0. I'm learning to program under Windows, so I can appreciate the effort that went into developing this product. I think the MS people did a hell of a coding job. This is one of those programs that is so feature rich, that I won't be exhausting its capabilities anytime soon. I don't think an upgrade is going to improve things for you. As they add capabilities they may improve the overall execution speed, but they might also make it slower too. Word for Windows is indicative of the power that will be put into future programs. With my current hardware, I don't get a snap response to commands, but I'm willing to live with that (at least until I get accustomed to the 20MHz 386 world :) ). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Sampson Harris Corporation dsampson@x102a.ess.harris.com Gov't Aerospace Systems Divison uunet!x102a!dsampson Melbourne, Florida -------------------------------------------------------------------------------