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- From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Slow Word 5.0???
- Message-ID: <terjer-181192090547@majestix.ifi.unit.no>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:05:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.030549.1740@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <69718@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <69718@cup.portal.com>, Van@cup.portal.com (Sylvan Van Jacques)
- wrote:
- >
- > I think the Word 5 manual says you should set memory at 2Meg if you use Sys 7
- > and/or the Grammar checker.
- > The Classic with Sys 7 is not going to be too fst anyway, but be sure you
- > have sys7 TuneUp 1.1.1 installed, and remove things like the Crammar checker
- > if you aren't using it. Also, get the Word5a patch and especially the
- > new Spell and Grammar checker PIM's (plug in modules).
- >
- > I have a Classic II with all the above, and I set memory for Word 5 at 1200-
- > 1400K with no problem. I have removed the grammar checker (I like the new
- > spelling checker). I have the stuf mentioned above, and its tolerable, though
- > not a speed demon. Sys 7 on a classic is slow. I waited till I had a faster
- > machine to use Sys 7. I know a lot of people who still use Sys 6.xx for
- > speed sake. Van@cup.portal.com
-
- And remember to turn off "Repaginate in background" choice in the
- Preferences dialog!
-
- Terje Rydland
- Dept. of Informatics, UNIT, Trondheim, Norway
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