13 Nov
2006
13 Nov
'06
3:55 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Oh, I know it is - but so is MS Word, so it seems fair to compare one bloated
word processor with another :-) My point was really that I can believe that a
'modern' word processor could bring a circa-300MHz machine to its knees easily
enough.
So I'm not really blaming the OS at all, just the wp software (except that in
the Word case, it's still Microsoft's fault :-)
cheers
Jules
--
And if eight out of ten cats all prefer whiskas
Do the other two prefer Leslie Judd?
Hmm, not so sure. This laptop's running at
266MHz with 192MB of memory
and Openoffice under Linux really struggles[1]; I could believe that a
Stop right there. Openoffice is the source of that bloat; not a good
example for blaming the OS in the previous example. Run ps to see how
bad the damage is.