[X4U] Word is Slooooow

[Neil]

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.

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.

On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:28 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Remember MS Word 6.0 on System 7?

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