Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!deimos!phobos.cis.ksu.edu!kxb From: kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: window386 && their WORD Message-ID: <25F4500F.1F3C@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 00:04:30 GMT References: <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> <542@cpqhou.UUCP> <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> <100289@linus.UUCP> Sender: root@deimos.cis.ksu.edu (Superuser) Reply-To: kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences Lines: 34 In article <100289@linus.UUCP> carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) writes: >In article dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) writes: >>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? >> >>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 > >I would appreciate hearing any comments/problems that anyone has found >with Word for Windows. I bought my upgrade about a week ago and at this >point I'm about ready to use the 30 day return option and give it back to >Microsoft. > You may want to wait for MSW 3.0. InfoWorld had some screen shots of the new version and one of the big improvements is supposed to be that it can run in protected mode. Supposedly there is a special 386 mode also that features improved memory usage. The new version may fix the bugs you are experiencing. In the article they specifically said that they tried word for windows on the new and old windows. The result was that the new version of windows ran w for w "significantly faster" whatever that means. I hate to tell you I reccomend one or the other (return or not). I'll just say that I'm pretty excited about ver. 3.0 and am looking forward to its release. It promises to be a big improvement. -- | 731 Moro | POPEYE@KSUVM.KSU.EDU | Be cool, be hip, | | Manhattan, KS 66502 | kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu | be an Engineer. |