Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu!bradb Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc From: bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) Subject: Re: window386 && their WORD Message-ID: <90Mar7.131753est.7566@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> <542@cpqhou.UUCP> <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> <100289@linus.UUCP> <25F4500F.1F3C@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 18:18:51 GMT Lines: 31 kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) writes: >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? >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'll second this. I'm running WfW on my 12MHz '286, and it's unacceptably slow. There are a lot of small problems with the program that are not going to go away with Windows 3.0, but I have seen Windows 3.0 in beta and the beta testers told me that it ran WfW "quite a bit faster." I don't have any benchmarks about what that means, either, but there is hope... (-: Brad Brown :-) bradb@ai.utoronto.ca