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Re: AppleWorks GS
- Subject: Re: AppleWorks GS
- From: rubywand@aol.com
- Date: 1996/11/15
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) (1.10)
- References: <56g8f2$188a@uni.library.ucla.edu>
- Sender: news@aol.com
In article <56g8f2$188a@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
writes:
>
>He's not talking about main memory. The computer only has a limited
amount
>of direct page memory and it is this limit that prevents you from
>multitasking more than a few IIGS applications. New software is frugal,
>taking only 4K or so of this mem, but hogs like AWGS and HyperCard eat
>up on the order of 16K. They are not multitask friendly.
>
Mostly, users seem to complain about the way AWGS sort of flops into
their systems like a big whale. A suite of compact, well-matched wp, data
base, and desktop publishing utilities would be a good deal more
attractive.
Rubywand