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Subject:Re: Is Frame a resource hog? From:Patrick O'Connell <patrick -at- EICON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:27:24 -0400
|Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 09:43:02 PDT
|From: Arthur Comings <atc -at- CORTE-MADERA -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM>
|Subject: Is Frame a resource hog?
|
|> > If you like the way that WinWord 6 uses up your Windows GDI
resources,
|> > you'll LOVE Filemaker Pro 2.1 from Claris. It seems that no matter
|> > what percentage of resources are available when I open Filemaker,
only
|> > 3% is left when I exit from the program.
|
|Does anyone know how FrameMaker for PC's performs in this category?
|
|Thanks
|
|Arthur Comings
|
|GeoQuest
|Corte Madera, California
I have just one word for Frame/Win: OINK!
I suppose anyone who knows about the origins of FrameMaker -- it started
on Sun workstations with the assumption there'd be at least 32 Mb of memory
to play with -- isn't surprised about this.
The other thing is that (as my editor is so fond of telling me) Microsoft
apparently holds up Frame/Win as an example of "how Windows programs should be,"
or did so in the past. In other words, strict adherence to Microsoft's
recommendations re: Windows programming. The problem is, this makes Frame 4
perform like a first-generation Windows 3 program because of the lack of
hurry-it-up programmatic shortcuts taken. It would be nice to see FrameMaker
5 for Win remedy this and also standardize the way Frame/Win uses text-selection
keyboard shortcuts. The latter aspect frustrates me so much I prefer Word 2 for
composition!
PatO'
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