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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: InfoWorld's Notes From The Field
Message-ID: <14080@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 08:01:06 GMT
References: <13712@oberon.USC.EDU> <7794@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <7794@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>It seems that the
>>Amiga operating system is the favored multitasker for WordPerfect
>>programmers, who wrote WP 4.1 from scratch for the Amiga after
>>the company had given up on a DOS port and sold the development
>>machines to the programmers for home use"
>>
>	From scratch, eh?  From what I've *heard*, it doesn't make as much
>use of Amiga's features as one might hope.

Frankly, I wish they'd used a few _less_ Amiga features.  Or maybe I
should say *misused* a few less Amiga features.  They've badly overused
windowing in my opinion.  Every requester appears in its own window,
sometimes taking over a second to appear.  Instead of moving through
the menus almost instantaneously on an IBM, where all wp has to do is
redraw the bottom line, the Amiga version opens windows for each level
of menus, taking 6 or 8 seconds to do what could have taken less than 1
on an IBM (once you know what you're doing).  Tedious.

Overall, I found the Amiga version of wp very nice as I was learning it,
but once I knew the ins and outs of the menus and *knew* what I wanted
to do, I felt very hampered by the slow response.

Assuming this *RUMOR* about 6.0 is right, I hope they address this
problem.
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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP