megarat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I myself purchased a 12" PBG4 to replace my trusty old PB100, and found that > (1) i couldn't find a dictionary/thesaurus program that was as complete or as > useful my American Heritage Dictionary program, and (2) i've been having a lot > of problems finding a word processor (that i like) for Mac OS X that doesn't > choke (i.e., slow down) on large documents. the latter is pretty silly, > considering that WriteNow 4.0 kicked butt on files exceeding 200k words, and > many of the big "alternative" word processors out there (Mellel, Nisus Writer > Express) just get more and more miserable the longer the document gets, and > can't even handle 100k words without slowing down to the point of being > irritating or unusable.
And I'll bet that Basilisk II has reduced the speed of your G4 to a PB100. ;) While I haven't dealt with many large word processor documents, a friend of mine noted that modern computers seem to have a lot of trouble with large text files. Older programs didn't run into such problems (at least, the ones designed to handle more than 32 kB of text). I suspect that is because modern programs load the entire document into memory and let the OSes memory manager deal with it. Whether or not it was efficient depended largely upon how good the memory manager was for dealing with a certain type of data structures. Old programs (I suspect) just loaded the desired chunk of the file into memory, so that was much quicker. I'm also a fan of the AHD. It is small, fast, cheap, and will run on anything. I think I spent a total of $10 and have copies for OS/2, Windows, and Macintosh. :) I'd like to try out WriteNow one day. I've never heard a bad word about it. (And I may have a lead on it: somebody may be contacting me for data conversion, and they'd give me their old computer -- with WriteNow -- in exchange. :) Byron. -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
