ons 2021-04-14 klockan 17:39 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 18:44, Kevin Bowling > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Linux tends to churn that amount of code in a release. I find it > > interesting how large systemd has become as well: > > https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/linux_2020_kernel_systemd_code/ > > I didn't know but I can well believe it. Virtually _any_ 30-40+ year > old code is, by modern standards, lightweight and fast. > > Compared to, say, C++, Ada is a lightweight, clean language. Compared > to modern *nix, Multics itself is a sylph-like slip of a thing. >
Ha, on my debian system i get more memory available when instead of gnome i instead run e. And when i i got some problem with printing from evolution .... webkitgtk in its sandbox version cant print so now i run webkitgtk inside the normal evolution process.... more memory saved but i'm living a bit more unsafe now.... > One of my personal favourites... there is a lot of word-processor > advocacy online now and the one most people praise as The Best Thing > EVAH is WordPerfect. > > I used and supported WordPerfect in the late '80s & early '90s. I > never liked it that much. Fast, feature-rich, yes, but a UI one could > only love because of Stockholm Syndrome. > FRAME from that era was nice and fast. > But I remember 5.x introducing pull-down CUA-type menus and being for > me significantly easier to use as a result. And I remember v 6, > lambasted as sluggish bloatware at the time, having a graphics-mode > GUI on DOS if you wanted. > > So I found a copy and installed it on PC DOS 7.1 on a Core 2 Duo > Thinkpad. On a modern multi-gigahertz x86, it _flies_ along. It's > snappy and responsive even in graphics mode, and by modern standards > it's tiny. A dozen meg or so. > > I don't use it much but it's fun to do so occasionally. > > My main go-to WP on my primary laptop is MS Word 97 for Windows, > under > WINE on 64-bit Ubuntu. Again, sluggish bloatware when new, but ¼ > century later, lightweight and positively snappy. Does everything I > need and more, including the all-important Outline mode. Has proper > menus, not a Ribbon. Runs perfectly under WINE including being able > to > install service releases to get it as current as possible. Same file > format as used up to 2003. I had to try to use word 20xx a few years ago .... compared with word 6 (current 1991 on mac) HILFEEEEEE Nowadays I hate being forced to mouse along ... while having a strained right wrist.
