25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
1:29 p.m.
On 25 January 2012 18:49, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
There's a quote I saw, from Seth Breidbart - he of Breidbart Index fame
on Usenet - that goes something like "WordStar on a 4.077 MHz 8086
could keep up with my typing; WinWord on a 300MHz Pentium III can't".
Of course, one of the joys of PC compatibles is that if you want, you
can run that copy of WordStar on your 300MHz PII - or on a 3000MHz
Core i7. And by the hypothetical deities, it flies along if you do.
Me, I run Word 97. On a modern box, it's very quick indeed.
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Not criticizing, just reflecting on how far we've
come.
I guess I wouldn't be criticizing if it weren't for the fact that
with all those advances, everything still runs at the same
approximate apparent speed.