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- From: brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter)
- Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
- Organization: Northwest Digital Systems
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 19:24:49 GMT
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- gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
- : brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) writes:
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- : >I can best summarize our opinion of WP5.1 with one word:
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- : > SSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
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- : I know WP5.0 with WPTERM=gui_color is slower than molassas in winter, but
- : I've seen WP51, and it is much better. WP51 for UNIX isn't out yet, as
- : far as I know, but I only follow SCO versions. I saw it at SCO Forum last
- : month, and it looked fast and fine.
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- We've used both WP5.0 and WP5.1 on a SPARCstation connected to X terminals.
- WP5.0 ran MUCH faster for us in GUI mode than WP5.1. Plus the bugs in WP5.1
- GUI mode make it even harder to use. WP5.0 in GUI mode was useable. WP5.1
- in GUI mode is unusable. At least the XTERM interface in WP5.1 works!
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- Brian
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