Laura Conrad wrote: >>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Flynn <peter.flynn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Peter> I've never quite understood why, given that only 10 years > Peter> ago, my main system was a 64Mb desktop running Red Hat 3 or > Peter> something, and WordPerfect for Linux (another monolithic > Peter> monster) executed quite usably, if slowly. I would have > Peter> thought that in the intervening decade, technology would > Peter> have advanced a little more than this. > > It has -- Microsoft Word has invented lots more kinds of bloat than > they had 10 years ago, so a program that tries to read all possible > Word documents has to be lots bigger. Natch :-) But I was really talking about the execution of the program per se at any stage, rather than in the state where it has to read bloated formats. > Software never gets faster. When they make the hardware faster, they > make the software slower to compensate. I can, however, still run TeX on my N800 nearly as fast as on my laptop. ///Peter _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
