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George Develekos (gdevelek@jaguar.ir.miami.edu) wrote:
: > was still too slow!  Are there any 64 MB folks out there using it?  Is
: > 64 MB enough for decent performance?  I'm wondering (a) just how much
: > memory is enough for StarOffice, and (b) once the memory issues are
: > taken care of, how is performance?
: > 

: I've used the static version it a little bit on a very lightly loaded  
: PPro-200 with 64M, and it's still sluggish.

Has anyone else noticed that as technology gets better and better that
the performance of the software gets worse and worse?  It seems that
software developers are using faster hardware to cover up for incompetent
programmers.  
Linux is a slick OS but as soon as you want a word processor you get
software which has bugger all features, is as bloated (code-wise) as a
puffer fish and runs like a 'rock'.
Just to put things in perspective I have a pdp-11 with 256K (yes K) of
memory and this is capable of running 20 simultaneous word processor users
(which it used to).
So using todays P200 with 64M of memory and the same software profile then
I should be able to have 5000+ simultaneous users - but I can't even
get 1 WP to run.

crap software - just say NO.

Cheers
Geoff