Brian, Whilst that may be true in much of the Western world it is certainly not true in many other countries, which is why we are expected to use Plain Text for emails (yours was - so not personal) as many countries where one might expect broadband are still mainly dial-up eg South Africa. I very much doubt if there are many PCs with that sort of spec over there.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Yet at the same time, the computing power in the average household > has gone up tremendously. Most users are no longer running 500 MHz > processors but rather 2.0 and greater GHz dual core and quad core > processors. Available system RAM is now usually a minimum of 2 GB on > 32-bit systems and 4 GB or more on 64-bit systems. You can put the > "on-the-fly" computation into the same bucket as the promised source > conversion tool. > > Brian in CA > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 4:10 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship >> >> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:15:03 +1000, "Colin Liddell" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why would the programmers do that, was there a problem with it? >> >> I don't know if they ever actually posted a reason publicly. I >> surmise that when V7 introduced relationships for non-blood >> relatives, that the time it took to recompute relationships >> increased to the point where doing it "on the fly" every time you >> added a person could no longer be done in a reasonable amount of >> time. >> >> Just one other reason why I never upgraded to V7. >> >> -- >> >> Dennis Kowallek (LTools) >> http://zippersoftware.com/ltools >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools >> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
