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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] modularized openoffice.org
From:       Alex Fisher <alexf-ooo () hypermax ! net ! au>
Date:       2003-02-04 21:57:17
Message-ID: 200302050757.17520.alexf-ooo () hypermax ! net ! au
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:20, laurent.duperval@microcell.ca wrote:
>
> Word Perfect used to work like that in DOS. The ill effect is that whenever
> you used something for the first time, it would load it up from the floppy.
> Sloooow.

:) I used to get around that on an AT by having the high memory configured as 
a ram disk. WP was started by a batch file which loaded the entire floppy 
onto the ram disk, so every time it needed to load something else, it 
accessed it from there. Loading was almost instantaneous.
>
> It would be nice to see some of these good ideas from yore make their back
> into modern applications.
>
So true. But remember, many of these ideas were designed to conserve memory. 
With the amount of memory available today, programmers don't see the need to 
do these things now. :(

> L

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Alex Fisher
OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Community Contact
Australia/New Zealand

http://www.openoffice.org


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