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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] modularized openoffice.org
From:       Jim Kelleher <jkelleher () jps ! net>
Date:       2003-02-05 1:20:31
Message-ID: 200302041720.31807.jkelleher () jps ! net
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Indeed...
Thou shalt have no more than 640 K...
Thou shalt never need more than 640 k.
Thou shalt keep that number holey.

hehe I can remember running stuff in less than 64Kb!
And they rean fast too...
You are right of course now tha tI have 640 Meg. it seems like a distant 
memory.
Tight code? Ha!
oh well I guess we have to pay for all da bells and whistles somehow.

JimTE

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 01:57 pm, Alex Fisher wrote:
> 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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