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- From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: A Sub-512K Word Processor, Anyone?
- Message-ID: <715345893.24505@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 11:11:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.143038.17604@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Joe Trott (joet@dcatlas.dot.gov) wrote:
- : cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha) writes:
- :
- : >> A friend of mine has an AMSTRAD 1512 PC with no expansion boards.
- : >>
- : >> Can anyone recommend a Word Processor that will run on the system
- : >> (512K) and still have enough RAM left to cope with documents up to
- : >> 30 pages in length?
- :
- : Multimate is page-oriented (i.e. it only keeps one page in RAM at a time).
- : It can be slow, but is otherwise a viable choice.
- :
- : -JTT
-
- Try Protext or Tasword. Or, for that matter, Locoscript. All are relatively
- small, but unfortunately not particularly powerful or friendly.
-
- Pete
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