Date   : Tue, 13 Oct 1987 22:29:10 GMT
From   : aramis.rutgers.edu!knutsen@rutgers.edu (Mark Knutsen)
Subject: Re: Wordstar 4 minimum memory usage.

In article <22115XBQ@PSUVM> XBQ@PSUVM.BITNET (Ed Winograd) writes:

> WS 4.0 may or may not work.  The important figure isn't how much memory
> your computer has -- almost all CP/M computers have 64K total memory.
> What's important is the size of the Transient Program Area (TPA), which
> is the amount of memory available to application programs after the
> amount taken up by the operating system (yes, CP/M 2.2 is the same as
> CP/M-80 -- the newer version, CP/M 3.0, is usually called CP/M Plus).
 A big "thank you" to you and the others who replied to my query.  The
ATR is not such a non-standard machine, so I assume WordStar will fit.
Also, it can read many popular disk formats, incl. Kaypro and Osborne,
so no problem there, either.

 I have two more questions:

a) Is WordStar's screen-updating tolerable when used with an ADM-3A terminal
(which is what the Atari emulates when talking to the ATR)?

b) What is the reasoning behind the two-drive requirement?  Why can't
you get along with only one drive?  This question asked for the benefit of
a friend with a Commodore 128, and only one 1571 drive.

Actually, any comments from C128 users running WordStar 4.0 would be
appreciated.

  Thanks, 
     --Mark Knutsen
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