TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) (05/11/89)
I ran WordPerfect/ST on a 512K 520ST for about one year. I can assure you that such a setup..(no hard drive by the way) will work with documents at least 30 pages in length. (double spaced) Did it all the time...with no problems. I suspect that if someone was getting only ten pages on a 512K system then s/he had a lot of desk acc.s eating up RAM. Don't get me wrong...WP/ST *is* a memory hog. Using it on a 512K system is not very fun. The spell checker will work at a crawl.. if it will run at all...and having multiple documents open at once is next to impossible. It does work though..and it's not as limited as past messages would have you believe. I managed many term papers on a 512K machine. But I was sure to upgrade to a 1040 when it came time to do my thesis. :) -=->G<-=- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Gordon R. Meyer, Northern Illinois University, Dept of Sociology | | GEnie: GRMEYER, CIS: 72307,1502, Phone: (815) 753-0555 | | Bitnet: Tee-Kay-Zero-Gee-Are-Em-One AT Enn-Eye-You.bitnet | |------------------------------------------------------------------|
bobw@hpsad.HP.COM (Bob Waltenspiel) (05/15/89)
/ hpsad:comp.sys.atari.st / TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) / 11:55 pm May 10, 1989 / >I ran WordPerfect/ST on a 512K 520ST for about one year. I can >assure you that such a setup..(no hard drive by the way) will >work with documents at least 30 pages in length. (double spaced) >Did it all the time...with no problems. I suspect that if someone >was getting only ten pages on a 512K system then s/he had a lot >of desk acc.s eating up RAM. >Don't get me wrong...WP/ST *is* a memory hog. Using it on a 512K >system is not very fun. The spell checker will work at a crawl.. >if it will run at all...and having multiple documents open at once >is next to impossible. It does work though..and it's not as >limited as past messages would have you believe. I managed many >term papers on a 512K machine. But I was sure to upgrade to a >1040 when it came time to do my thesis. :) >-=->G<-=- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Gordon R. Meyer, Northern Illinois University, Dept of Sociology | | GEnie: GRMEYER, CIS: 72307,1502, Phone: (815) 753-0555 | | Bitnet: Tee-Kay-Zero-Gee-Are-Em-One AT Enn-Eye-You.bitnet | |------------------------------------------------------------------| ---------- I made the original comment about WP only being able to do about 10 pages. I beleive your right about RAM being eaten up, but it's not by desk accesories but by the harddisk driver. I don't use any desk accessories when using WP, yet I am unable to use the spell checker because of memory problems. Any day now I'll get my memory expanded but I just wanted to let others know of my limitations. bw ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- | Bob Waltenspiel | e-mail: bobw@hpsadpe (hplabs!hpsad!..) | | ATE Software Team | Telnet: 794-3091 | | HP Signal Analysis Division | AT&T: (707) 794-3091 | | 1212 Valley House Dr. | HPDesk: Bob WALTENSPIEL/HP5300/A0 | | Rohnert Park, CA 94928-4999 | HP Mailstop: 1UR-M | ----------------------------------- -----------------------------------------