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Subject:Re: Word 7: Is it a hog? From:David Locke <locke -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- ANADRILL -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:30:24 +0000
At 06:57 AM 10/2/96 PDT, you wrote:
>Yes. You probably have a much greater need for more memory than for
>more CPU power, though.
Don't count on that for long. If MS Word and other applications get
rewritten to use threads, then the more CPU you have, the faster things will
run. Imagine a Word file repaginating while you kept right on typing.
David Locke
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