OpenOffice.org Performance

[William Park]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:30:06PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> "Hugh Reilly" <hughreilly1-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > In my experience, OO is slow to open, but once it's open, it runs
> > just fine. So I can forgive the slow opening. And I actually do
> > prefer it to Word. It actually let's me do what I want rather than
> > having Bill Gates "think for me", which only requires additional
> > mouse-clicks to undo what Bill thinks I want.
...
> Word processing was a great invention but they should have stopped
> with simple fixed font word processors like the old WordStar, early
> versions of WordPerfect, or even stuff like AppleWorks that I used on
> my Apple IIe in 1984/85. IMO, WYSIWYG (yeah right) word processors
> with fancy GUIs are a step backwards.  They encourage you to spend a
> great deal of time fussing with formatting and the results usually
> bare little or no resemblance to what you see on the screen anyway.
> In 1987, I used AppleWorks on my Apple IIe, equipped with a 1Mhz
> processor and 128K of bank switched RAM, to prepare my Bachelor's
> thesis, an approximately 80 page document IIRC.  In 1993, I struggled
> with a 25 page document using Word for Windows on a then state of the
> art 66MHz 486 with 16MB RAM.  And now, I'm having problems with a 7
> pager in OpenOffice on a 2GHz Cerleron with 256MB RAM.  There's
> something wrong here.
> 
> I'll take Emacs or vi and LaTeX or troff any day.

troff?  Wow, that takes me back...  It's unfortunate that TeX kill it
off, because it wasn't too bad for non-math documents.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
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