> On Sep 5, 2015, at 2:33 PM, smac0031 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When I run my DA G4 with contemporaneous software, from the early 2000s it > does well. If I run newer stuff it gags.
Yep, I think this right here is the biggest clue to your performance issues, sadly…modern software presumes a certain amount of computing horsepower, in terms of CPU and IO. Thus it has always been; Applewriter ran well in 64K with 360K floppy disks on my Apple ][+; TextEdit takes 6.1 mb on disk and that doesn’t count that probably 50% of TextEdit’s code resides in standard OSX libraries elsewhere on disk. After opening a 2K text file, it takes 14 mb of RAM. MS Word 2016 preview weighs in at 1.49 GB on disk... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
