Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-11 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 11-06-01 at 14:10 Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be [...] It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster machine, but a friend with dual-processor box

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:39:45PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: For me, the performance of StarOffice, apart from the startup time, isn't that bad, using a 750 mhz Duron, 256 Mb ram and a rather slow harddrive. Yes, as soon as it's up and running its ok. But its still abit sluggish. But

program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread rich
Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux,

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:47:10PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | rich wrote: | | Howdy all, | | I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform | relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While | WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:55:21AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to StarOffice in terms of performance

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite