scott wrote:

> Exactly, almost every company has their requirements for something more 
> than just plain text.  Whether it's specialist scientific diagrams, 
> photos, fancy graphics or whatever.  Not many companies just produce 
> reports and things in plain-text.

My point here is not "word processors shouldn't allow you to include 
graphics". My point is "running a word processor should not require 
several hundred MB of RAM" [unless you're actually loading something large].

>> My point is not so much that we should go back to using 32K machines, 
>> but rather that we should go back to the days of programs only using 
>> more than 32K if they *need* it for something. ;-)
> 
> If I load up a blank Word or Excel document, it uses 0.5% of my physical 
> RAM... I can cope with that as being essentially "zero"...
> 
> What I'm struggling to cope with at the moment is my CFD simulation that 
> keeps running out of RAM :-)

What I'm struggling with is that opening Firefox takes about 25 seconds 
because first the OS has to page enough stuff out to disk to make space 
to load the program image into physical RAM.

Seriously. It sounds like nothing, but do you have any idea how 
*annoying* it is when it takes 10 seconds to switch between windows? My 
lowly Amiga with 2 MB of RAM could do all that *instantaneously* 20 
years ago... WTF?

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