[Scottish] 6 against word

[Fulvio Valente]

I never thought there was such a thing as a stable word processor until now!
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From: "Bernd Porr" <Bernd.Porr at cn.stir.ac.uk>
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:54 PM
Subject: [Scottish] 6 against word


> The German computer journal c't compared M$WORD with it's competitors:
> WP 1.1, WordPro, OpenOffice1.1, Ragtime, Textmaker and Papyrus X.
> 
> The test was to write a "Thesis" on these programs: 140 pages with 120 
> images and 240 footnotes.
> 
> Programs which crashed during the test: Word 2003, WP 11 and WordPro 
> 9.8. Actually word started struggling after the 20th image and gave up 
> after the 50th.
> 
> OO1.1, Ragtime 5.6.5, Textmaker 2002 and Papyrus X were stable.
> 
> /Bernd
> 
> link to c't:
> http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml
> 
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