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to: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLAR
from: WIM VAN BLARICUM
date: 1996-06-09 21:51:00
subject: Word 6.0

  Jonathan De Boyne Pollard,
  In a message on 30 May, you wrote to me :
Thank you for your repley,
 
JP>   Word 6.0 is just a memory hog.  It asks for lots of memory, and OS/2
JP>   gives it what it asks for.  OS/2 has to increase the swapfile size in
JP>   order to do this.
Are there no ways to decrease Words memory consumption?
 
JP>   Solution #4 : Replace Word with a wordprocessor that is less memory
JP>                 intensive.  Don't ask me for opinions, because, to be
JP>                 frank, all of my wordprocessing needs are happily met by
JP>                 BOXER 7.0 for OS/2.
JP> 
JP>                 There's a whole load of options for you to investigate :
JP>                 Describe for OS/2, Clearlook/2, Ami Pro for OS/2, the wor
JP>                 processor in the Bonus pack ...
There is currently no way of getting hold of OS/2 software here :-(
But I'll hope that Word Pro for OS/2 will be available here.
Greetings,
Wim.  
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