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 ins

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

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. Bu

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

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 & compat

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 un

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" ke

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 g

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