I hate to disappoint you or maybe I am just lucky -- I have Star Office
5.2 in Linux with 2.2.16 kernel a PII 450 processor and 256M of memory. I
just timed how long it took to bring it up -- less than 3 seconds after I
clicked on the icon. I'll stick with Star Office but that's jmho. ;-)
Patti
Registered Linux User #184611
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/13/00, 2:18:01 PM, Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]:
> your friend was exaggerating. Star office still crawls on 256M. It
crawls on
> 384! Click on the icon, get up, get a beer, have a smoke, read the
newspaper,
> cook some dinner, Hey! the splash screen is up on the screen!
> hahahahahaha
> Abe
> >===== Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=====
> >> What in the world would one do with all that RAM? I can half
> >understand
> >> having that much processor, but on a machine that you're not using as
> >a
> >> server I can't figure what all that RAM would be good for other than
> >just
> >> sitting there and being ALOT of RAM. Poor little programs would get
> >lost
> >> in all that room! :(
> >
> >I was talking to someone a while ago who said that Star Office likes
> >250Mb RAM to run properly - it CRAWLS on less.
> >
> >NutScrape takes a fair bit too. Add VWMare to the package, with a
> >couple of clients, and a gig goes in no time #;-(
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ozz.
> Jesus saves,
> Allah forgives,
> Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
