From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-05-07 01:44:32 +0000, Steve Hayes said:   
      
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   > They keep promising me a "better experience" if I upgrade, but waiting   
   > ages for something to open is not my idea of a "better experience". Of   
   > course if I were rich, as website developers assume everyone to be, I   
   > could just buy a new computer every 6 months, to have the bigger   
   > membory and more powerful processor needed to cope with software   
   > bloat. and, of course, that's what keeps them in business.   
      
   I agree completely. 30 years ago on my MacPlus I did my word processing   
   with a program called WriteNow. It was much faster than any of the   
   better known rivals -- Word, WordPerfect etc. -- and could open and   
   save files virtually instantaneously, and was small enough to fit on a   
   floppy leaving space some documents, so I could use it on other   
   people's computers. Despite the fact that my present computers are   
   vastly more powerful I know of no current high-end word processors in   
   the same class. I _hate_ upgrading, and only do it when I'm forced.   
      
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   athel   
      
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