>> I was wondering what people's experiences are with using various
>> versions of the MacOS on a Duo 230. What's the fastest/slimmest? My
>> "new" Duo (thanks Alan!) has 12mb of RAM and an 80mb hard drive.
>Nisus has a
>word processor called "Nisus Compact" which I believe is free and made
>specifically for low requirements <http://www.nisus.com>. Hard disk
>requirements are 600K for the application, 1.2 MB's if you want the
>spelling dictionaries. Ram is 500K-1MB. I played around with it and it
>seems to have a good amount of features. I don't use it because it doesn't
>support tables (which I use) and all of my documents are in WordPerfect
>format. But the full NisusWriter might be an option too, I just don't know
>its requirements.
An old but very good version of the full Nisus Writer, 4.1.6 is also free
at the moment, from the same site (on-line registration needed). It'll run
in 1700K (3000 recommended), and I used it for a long time on 230 with
12M, no problem. For on-line tutorials and help with some of the
mind-bogglingly powerful features (like the legendary search & replace and
macro facilities), see the great Matt Neuburg's site at
http://www.tidbits.com/matt. A manual is available quite cheap via the
Nisus website, and there's also a superb (but now hard-to-find) book on
this version by Joe Kissell called The Nisus Way (MIS Press 1996).
Another very good free, low-memory WP that works on the 230 (though not on
all PowerMacs) is FullWrite Pro, downloadable from
http://www.akimbo.com/fullwrite/etc/fullwrite_download_page.html. The
current download page doesn't seem to make this clear, but FullWrite has
been a free product since the beginning of 1998; simply enter
FREE-33333-33333 in the registration dialogue. Best integrated outlining &
annotation features of any WP, living or dead.
Both of these do allow export to other standard WP formats - Nisus supports
MacLink+ and XTND, FullWrite just XTND.
I'd personally disagree with the recommendation of any version of System
7.5, by the way. Use 7.1 with the various bells & whistles that came in
with its later versions (Drag & Drop, Finder Scripting Extension, Thread
Manager), plus the freeware versions of things like WindowShade, and you'll
have a faster, significantly slimmer System that will do pretty much all
the same stuff, and probably be more stable.
Nick Lowe
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