<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I remember an early version of MS Word on the Mac Plus, it was no speed demon, but it worked ok. When I finally upgraded my hardware to a PPC Mac, I expected Word to really fly. So, I installed the latest version (v.6). It was a brand new Power Mac, but I only had the default amount of RAM so I didn't try to load any other apps after startup. Word was never slow for me. It was instead such a slug that it couldn't even launch on a brand new PowerMac. It needed more ram even if it was the only app running! Needless to say, I dumped Word. Even years later, after MS came out with a version that had better performance and a more Mac like interface, I had friends who swore that there would never be a word processor better than MS Word 5.1.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is a lesson here for people who think that native software is the end all and be all of computing performance. Word 6, or as we used to call it "Word for Windows for Mac," was 100% native. <DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:28 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Remember MS Word 6.0 on System 7?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>