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Re: (OT) The giant steps down before the crash
de Brian (Groups) 06/17/2006 12:55
Man-wai Chang wrote:
> I would never understand why M$ Word was so big compared to the good old
> WordPerfect 5.1 (if not 6.0). WP 5.1 could be fitted on a 1.4M diskette
> that offers more or less the same amount of features as in Word!
Errm... might it just have something to do with WP5.1 being a DOS
program, and WFW being Windows-based? I'm wondering, on an apples vs.
apples and oranges vs. oranges basis, how Word for DOS compared with
WP5.1, and how Word for Windows compared with WP 6.0+. I know that
WordPerfect's venture into windows produced attrocious results, but an
appropriate comparison of relative installation sizes would be
interesting.
Brian