[Scottish] Computing Power debate

[ObjectWiz]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:19, Kevin McDermott wrote:
> Are you suggesting that Excel/Word are close to 1000 times more powerful?
> 
> Don't they perform the same basic task as Lotus 1-2-3 was managing on those self-same 4.77MHz processors, with some graphical bells and whistles, can those bells and whistles really be accounting for the 10000% increase in processing power?

No way! I think they do the same old rubbish they always did. Paper clip
assistants, stupid animated icons and all that other guff is what takes
up the space and power. That and, of course, the 3D flight simulators
built in ...

;-)

--wiz