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- From: peters@CS.ColoState.EDU (eric peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <Aug28.055027.71770@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 05:50:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au> <1992Aug27.182818.42613@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug27.182818.42613@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
- >> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> What about the 15 Meg of RAM Word for Windows 2
- >> takes up. Sounds like damm crappy ineffecient
- >> code to me.
- >
- >Word uses 15 megs of RAM? You mean Hard disk space. And 15 megs
- >seems to be around the norm for high end word processors now. Don't
- >get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft, too. Ami Pro 3.0 is tons better
- >than Word for Windows. Just wanted to point out the inconsistency.
- >
- >> --
- >> Lachlan Cranswick - CSIRO _--_|\ lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- gee, WordPerfect only takes up 4 megs of my disk... and i like it a lot
- better than Word, and it doesn't run under windows.
-
- --
- Eric Peters
- peters@CS.Colostate.EDU
-