386 word processor performance

[Fred Rump from home]

In article <66 at mdi386.UUCP> bruce at mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) writes:
->In article <2161 at thor.acc.stolaf.edu->, mackenzi at thor.acc.stolaf.edu (David MacKenzie) writes:
->> How are WordPerfect and Microsoft Word on resource use on 386's?
->We use Lyrix here, because when we set this system up, there was no WORD
->or WORDPERFECT for this environment.  Our setup is similar, 16mhz 80386
->with SCO386 Lyrix 5.0 and 4MB memory.  The terminals are all IBM3151's in
->using WORD, as PAGEMAKER knows about WORD files... Any comment, has anyone
->done this?

	Bruce, 95% of our users use Lyrix. Some chose MS Word because of dos 
familiarity. Same for WP. We always recommend Lyrix because of its file 
maintenance menu and general fit into the SCO office portfolio environment.
	In a couple cases we went with the Sun River VP/ix and Ventura route.
It's quite a system drag and only good for the some time users for desktop.
A weekly ot monthly bulletin, that kind of stuff. Printing is sloooow. At the 
office we use a separate dos 386 with lasermaster controllers etc to do lots 
of desktop and for customer demos.
	In general, we push for 20 or 25MhZ machines if the user talks desktop 
capability with a fast big ESDI drive and lots of memory.
Fred Rump
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