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On Friday 01 November 2002 9:54 pm, Jaymz Julian wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2002, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> > Jaymz,
> >
> > While my personal opinion is kword in front, abiword not out of the
> > running, and openoffice bringing up the rear, I'm not sure that
> > your argument here is, in fact, valid.  Specifically, why not throw
> > 128MB of RAM at typing a letter?
> >
> > While this is esthetically unpleasing, from an engineering
> > perspective it may not be "bad".  RAM is cheap, and development is
> > expensive and time consuming.
>
> primarily, my argument is that I have people breathing down my neck
> to deply openoffice on 32meg systems, and I genuinly would like to
> know what exactly is percieved as being so damn amazing about it that
> people are convinced that this 40 minute startup time is acceptable
>
> therefore, it was the first random thing I picked out that pissed me
> off about oopenoffice - perhaps I should have felt the need to writ
> ethe 50 page manifesto ;)

Let me see.  Windows XP says that 64 MB is the minimum and 128 MB is 
recommended.  I have a list of software I'd like from several 
distributors and they all have that.  I haven't seen "at least 32 MB 
RAM" in over a year, and even then it was rare.  Given how cheap 
another 32 MB is, I wonder why anyone is complaining?

Now, if you're running Windows 3.1 or DOS, it would be no problem -- 
but you'd also have trouble finding software for it.

- -- 
Robert Black Eagle
The more I understand, the less I know.
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