Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> They don't!  If I open a blank Word document, that's 10 MB.
> 
>> ...which begs the question, "what are you using 10 MB for?"
> 
>   Using the available memory in modern computers for eyecandy and useful
> stuff as well (such as spellchecking, etc). Also WYSIWYG tends to consume
> some memory.

Hmm. Word's default dictionary might be 9 MB or so. (And it must load 
that if it does the "spell as you type" thing.) That leaves the rest as 
a larger executable (to implement more functionality) and a little more 
space... for... who knows?

>   In some cases "eyecandy" is actually not useless, as it can make things
> clearer and easier and more intuitive to use.

I won't argue with that. One could describe any GUI as "candy" (since, 
after all, it's perfectly *possible* to operate a computer that doesn't 
even have a graphics cability - and this requires vastly less memory), 
yet it clearly makes [almost] everything much easier.

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