rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) (09/09/90)
Someone posted a note here a week or so ago about OmniWriter, the 80 column word processor available from Newell Industries with their OmniView OS upgrade. Supposedly this word processor is "seamless" in that it addresses the extended memory in an XE. My question is what is the size of the largest editable text file it will handle? And will it fully use the 1Meg upgrade they offer? (a 1Meg upgrade for only $100 bucks! Now what the hell do I do with all that memory?) Along the same lines, does anyone know of any word pro for the 8-bits that fully uses extended memory? I've heard talk that PaperClip does, but only as a Ramdisk. I'd really like something that supports 80 columns and will efficiently allow the editing of large (50-100k) files. If you know anything about this, please respond! I've asked before and received only dead silence as an answer! -Roy Wood (rrwood@contact.uucp)
gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) (09/10/90)
In article <1990Sep9.141926.25790@contact.uucp> rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes: => =>Along the same lines, does anyone know of any word pro for the 8-bits =>that fully uses extended memory? I've heard talk that PaperClip does, =>but only as a Ramdisk. [...] PaperClip supports up to 256K 8-bits. On an unmodified 130XE it should give you about 80K of work space. On a 256K or greater XL/XE, Half of the extended RAM is used to store the spell checker, which speeds thinks up quite a bit, and the rest (80-90K) is work space. One note: my Newell Industries 256KXL had some quirks made PaperClip think it only had 128K. (Soultion: scopy the spell checker to an MIO RAMdisk and make it drive 2. Just as fast, and doesn't go away when the computer loses power.) Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu _o_ -------------------------- _o_ [|o o|] If you can square, round, or cube a number, why not sphere it? [|o o|] |_O_| "Don't listen to me; I never do." -- Doctor Who |_O_|
dave4@rruxh.UUCP (David J. Arlington) (09/14/90)
PaperClip uses all the availabble memory you have and NOT as a
RAMDisk. You have to have the 130XE version of PaperClip. Back when
I had a 320XE (320K), I used to edit some really huge documents. And
it doesn't work all goofy like Atari Writer +. But the really really
nice thing about PaperClip and extra memory is when you use the
SpellChecker. It loads into memory as much of the dictionary disk as
it can and then spellchecks. In that mode, it was as fast a
spellchecker as
anything I've ever used on any other machine.
Dave Arlington