On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:20:26 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:12:04 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
> 
>> > Jim Henderson wrote:
>> >> Create a letter using WordPerfect 5.1.  Create a letter using
>> >> Microsoft Word 2003.  Including the time just to start the
>> >> applications, WP51 starts quicker, and you finish quicker.
>> > 
>> > A more appropriate comparison would be WordPerfect 5.1 to Wordpad if
>> > you're just doing bare-bones word processing that needs a little
>> > formatted text.
> 
>> WordPad didn't exist on DOS.
> 
>   Neither did Word 2003. I completely fail to see your point.

Comparing modern software on modern hardware with a modern OS against the 
"modern" equivalents from 20 years ago.

20 years ago, I could run WordPerfect for DOS on a DOS machine that was 
an 8086 or 80286 and got decent performance - instant responses and 
whatnot.

Today I have a machine that's a billion times faster, and the modern 
software *runs slower*.

Jim

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