MORE Ami/2 complaints

[R S Rodgers]

In article <1993Dec10...@cua.edu>, <51g...@cua.edu> wrote:
>After entering, saving, and printing my six outlines, over the course of about
>four hours, with NOTHING ELSE RUNNING, my swapper.dat was more than 31M.

Was there a lot of swapping going on, or just a growing file?

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>Still, this is a *major* performance issue. Yes, I know, Ami/2 3.0 is really
>Ami/2 3.0beta, but this is the kind of thing that just blows me away.

No, this is AP3.0-OS/2 version 1.0. It is not a beta version,
it is a release. It might be beta quality, but this is what we're
stuck with for quite awile.

Besides, you'd think the >1 year beta program would have been
enough. (I saw the late betas, but I wonder what the early ones
must have looked like..)

--
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and
all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women.
Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at
twenty-one than you did at ten. --Jules Feiffer (cartoonist)

[51g...@cua.edu]

I have been quite the proponent of Ami Pro for OS/2 since buying it about two
weeks ago. And before I go any farther, I want to reiterate that I *do* use
Ami/2 and will continue to do so.

That said, well, it's got some minor problems that might warrant a teensy tiny
bit of work by Lotus.

I am in the middle of law school exams, and have been working like mad on my
outlines. The other day, I typed up six different sets of notes. Each one was
about two pages. They were in color (I have an HPDJ550C), and one of them
included a small graphic.

I run a DX2-66 with 16M of RAM. My initial swap size is 8M.

After entering, saving, and printing my six outlines, over the course of about
four hours, with NOTHING ELSE RUNNING, my swapper.dat was more than 31M.

God bless big hard drives. And thank goodness I decided to re-partition my HD
so that I had everything on one big partition. Not even Ami/2 should make a
200M swap file! Then again, if 12 pages = 31M, it would take less than 100
pages . . . (smileys all around, I know it doesn't work that way)

Still, this is a *major* performance issue. Yes, I know, Ami/2 3.0 is really
Ami/2 3.0beta, but this is the kind of thing that just blows me away.

Again, I *will* be using OS/2, Ami/2 (looks better than "AP/2" IMHO), and
probably just about any other mainstream, useful OS/2-native app that comes
out.

And I'm waiting for Gal Civ.

Todd Louis Green 51g...@cua.edu
Team OS/2 Washington, D.C.
Machines should work. People should THINK.