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- From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
- Subject: Re: Udell's complaints about the WPS in the August Byte.
- Message-ID: <pathak-290792152306@virtual.mitre.org>
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- Organization: Mitre Corporation
- References: <1992Jul29.155939.25435@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:29:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.155939.25435@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>,
- riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) wrote:
- >
- > Anyone care to comment about Jon Udell's complaints that
-
- Sure.
-
- > 1) the WPS is prone to crashes
-
- In my experience, the WPS is reasonably stable. It does crash once in a
- while, but the occurence are very far apart. When a crash does occur, the
- WPS automatically starts up again so it really isn't a big deal.
-
- > 2) It is "maddeningly slow" - he gives several examples, including the fact that
- > his PS/2 25mhz Model 70 with 6 mb of ram takes 3 seconds to open a folder with
- > "just a few icons".
- >
-
- I don't know if it is quite that slow but the WPS is slow and it is a real
- memory hog. I would hope that the CSD has a "WPS Lite" that is faster and
- smaller.
-
- Despite its problems, the I really love the WPS. When OSs in beta, I was
- shopping for a new computer. I really didn't want to get an Intel box but
- once I saw OS/2 (and the WPS), I ended up buying a 486.
-
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