mquigley@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Martyn Quigley, Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland) (08/08/90)
In article <29@mq.UUCP>, alan@mq.UUCP (Alan H. Mintz) writes: in reponse to a query about Wordprocessors for *nix > From the WordPerfect Corp. technical docs: > > Memory Requirements: > > WP 4.2 WP5.0 > ------ -------- > 1st User 634K 1.6M !!! > Each Add'tl user 258K 385K > > These figures are for SCO XENIX 386 (the only supported UNIX platform for 5.0 > as of May 1990). I would seriously evaluate the need for the additional > features found in 5.0 versus the bizarre memory requirement difference. I'm running WP5.0 under SCO Xenix 2.3.3. The date on the discs is 4/24/90. 312 /u/wp/bin> l wp ---x--x--x 1 root root 1723560 Jul 18 15:09 wp And this puppy is S L O W. I'm running on a 25 MHz '386 and the Xenix version is *nowhere* near as fast as the DOS version running under DOS on the same machine. Extra overhead with Xenix? Just for fun I started the Xenix version on one multiscreen, logged into another, started VPIX and then started the DOS version. No competition; even under VPIX the DOS version is MUCH faster. I have some minor gripes about the Xenix version. Send mail if you are interested. > < Alan H. Mintz | Voice +1 714 980 1034 > Martyn