home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19 / NN_1992_19.iso / spool / comp / sys / ibm / pc / misc / 11978 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-08-27  |  1.7 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!thompson
  2. From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
  4. Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug27.182818.42613@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Aug 92 18:28:18 CDT
  7. References: <Aug24.103534.26466@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>
  8. Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
  9. Lines: 23
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
  12. > stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:
  13. > 
  14. > 
  15. > What about the 15 Meg of RAM Word for Windows 2
  16. > takes up.  Sounds like damm crappy ineffecient
  17. > code to me.
  18.  
  19. Word uses 15 megs of RAM?  You mean Hard disk space.  And 15 megs
  20. seems to be around the norm for high end word processors now.  Don't
  21. get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft, too.  Ami Pro 3.0 is tons better
  22. than Word for Windows.  Just wanted to point out the inconsistency.
  23.  
  24. > -- 
  25. >   Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
  26. -- 
  27. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  28. |  Charles A. Thompson               |  thompson@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu         |
  29. |  University of Kansas              |  thompson@ukanvax.cc.ukans.edu        |
  30. |  _Avid_ SkiBum                     |  OS/2 2.0 is for YOU!!!               |
  31. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  32. |  Look for Recipe Pro(tm), an interactive recipe database, coming soon...   |
  33. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  34.