chuq@plaid.UUCP (06/03/87)
From: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 87 22:32:22 PDT We just got PageMaker 2.0 for both Mac and PC, and I decided to test 'em both out--run 'em through the paces, as it were. The Mac Plus & DataFrame 40XP combo came out easily 300-800% faster than the the Epson Equity III+ AT system (10 Mhz) & 30 Mbyte 39 mSec drive combo. For some reason, even with all the speed of the 80286, and the slightly faster drive, the combination of MS-Windows and the off-set memory addressing the 80286 does for 8088 compatibility slows down graphics screen updates to an absolute crawl. I would click on the screen for a text-insertion point, and then start typing, only to find that I'd overflowed the 10-key buffer 'cause Pagemaker had yet to load in the font and update all the memory structures it need to update before it would accept the keystrokes. Although I haven't used Ventura extensively, from the little I've played with it on the same PC system, I've encountered some of the same problems (though not as severe). It seems as though until a fast, rich windowing system comes out for the PC (Windows isn't fast, and GEM isn't very rich), and until the PC frees itself from off-set memory addressing (basically OS/2), the PC won't really be a very viable desktop-publishing machine--much too slow when compared to the mac (and about the same price). Also, for some reason I couldn't seem to get the PC-Pagemaker to read Mac-Pagemaker files; nor could I find a conversion utility. Does anyone know of such? Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn Oh when, oh when will my MacII korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU arrive? Oh where, oh {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn where can it be? ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Now, where did my ex-wife put my Fairy Dust?