Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?

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From: eric peters
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:50

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In article <1992Aug27.182818.42613@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> What about the 15 Meg of RAM Word for Windows 2
>> takes up.  Sounds like damm crappy ineffecient
>> code to me.
>
>Word uses 15 megs of RAM?  You mean Hard disk space.  And 15 megs
>seems to be around the norm for high end word processors now.  Don't
>get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft, too.  Ami Pro 3.0 is tons better
>than Word for Windows.  Just wanted to point out the inconsistency.
>
>> -- 
>>   Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

gee, WordPerfect only takes up 4 megs of my disk... and i like it a lot
better than Word, and it doesn't run under windows.

-- 
Eric Peters   
peters@CS.Colostate.EDU

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