I for one, will defend Legacy and I think it is by far the best software out there.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dora Smith Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] General Location Research Oh. Grin. But seriously, Legacy slow down a computer with plenty of resources, like mine. Also, in my experience, size of a program is directly inversely related to how efficiently it runs. In fact, I was actually taught that in computer science, and my sister, who is now a project manager for IBM, staunchly agreed with it. I really think that Legacy's biggest problem is the needlessly complicated way it structures data. It takes alot of unnecessary code, and alot of computer resources, to structure data in complicated ways that can and should be structured in simple ways. If you don't believe me, look at the relative size, data structure, and memory usage of PAF. If it weren't that Legacy is filling in for critical shortcomings in most other genealogical software, I'd actually rate it as a middling good program, and I'd also probably not use it. The tag system of data entry and editing is itself a serious shortcoming, enough to prevent people from using it for data entry and major editing, and I also prefer to export to my other programs from PAF because I know other programs will import its output. If Rootsmagic ever gets its act together, I'll probably use it instead. I'm only using Legacy at this time because after the excellent job PAF Companion did of putting all the information in my genealogical reports and formatting them straightforwardly, it strangely reverts to not listing multiple spouses and their children on its web pages. Legacy even makes a complex task of answering someone's question on the black sheep list about whether emigrant John Balch had a daughter named Abigail. Legacy would have taken a long time to load, three times as long to find Abigail Balch, and then it takes six steps to close the program. You have to remember that with Legacy you don't use the search feature to search, which is never easy. In Legacy you use view to search even though it has a search feature. Even if you know the program well this is confusing. You have to tell it six times that you do want to close the program and you don't want to back up this and that, before it will let you close. You have to tell it you did not lie when you told it to close! With PAF, looking up the information just took exactly 30 seconds. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] General Location Research > Legacy runs easily on 256MB of RAM even with a large graphic program (The > GIMP) running at the same time together with other programs. I often run > between 7 and 10 programs concurrently with Legacy. It is the download > size for people on dial-up that I was referring to although it is true > that the current Legacy version can cause problems on smaller computers > running Windows 9x. > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > *New Blogs: UK Civil Registration Timeline* > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > >>From: "Dora Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >>To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> >>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] General Location Research >>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:52 -0600 > >>It is true that Legacy is getting too big to run on many peoples' >>computers; in fact, many peoples' computers don't even meet its minimum >>system requirements for such features as amount of RAM space, which is >>some huge amount like 500 megs. My computer has that much, but it was >>added on by a computer savvy sister who purchased it for me. When making >>my web sites, my CPU temperature often rises to 55 degrees! Teh program >>uses 35 megs of physical memory, or something, which is alot; PAF uses >>only about 9 megs. That's enough to slow down other things that are open, >>like PAF, which is usually open if I'm doing a genealogy project, and >>e-mail, or Internet Explorer. >>Yours, >>Dora Smith >>Austin, TX >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > > > *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! 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