Re: Quadra 610 * Office ?

[helge.malmgren@phil.gu.se (Helge Malmgren)]

In article <36230B9D.5524BCFA@info.vub.ac.be>, Van Damme Bruno
<bvdamme@info.vub.ac.be> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm going to install MS office on an Apple Quadra 610.
> 
> I don't know much off apple, so my question is if it
> is good to do this. I mean will it work not to slow ?
> Is the machine capable enough ?
> 
> The main reason to get office is that word 6.0 is
> required.  
> 
> It has more than 30 MB of ram.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Bruno.

It will work, but rather slowly, not because your machine is bad but
because Word 6 for Mac is an unusually badly written program. And you
cannot run higher versions on a 68K mac. If you only need to READ Word 6
files (not write), there is a MSWord 6-->5 converter available. There is
even a Word 98-->5.1 converter now. So you can stay with word 5.1 as long
as you do not have to write these files! If you can't figure out how to get
the converters, send me a private e-mail and I will send then to you.

-- 
Helge Malmgren
Dept of Philosophy
G�teborg University
Sweden