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Re: SO 5--bigger, or better?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Whipple)
Mon Nov 9 09:44:17 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:42:17 +0000
From: Fred Whipple <fwwhippl@mindless.com>
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Jeff wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> For all of you that have successfully downloaded (how?) SO 5.0, and
> installed it--it is worth it? Is it even bigger and more bloated than
> 4.0, or have they cleaned it up a bit? Is it still a
> load-everything-at-once beheamoth, or is it now modular? This thing was
> almost cool around version 3.x (at least on Warp), but 4.0 is about
> twice as bloated as any M$ app I can think of. I love that it's free,
> but it sure is a dog in 64 MB RAM on a P6....
>
> In what areas did it get better/worse?
I've used it for a couple days now, but my answers may be a little
sided; I just got a PII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and U2W SCSI :-)
Informally watching xsysinfo, I've seen the presently used (not cached)
RAM grow near full using SO4 and the product seemed just a touch
sluggish relative to the speed of the rest of the other apps that were
slower on my P133 (i.e. Netscape). While those apps seem much faster on
the new machine, SO4 didn't really seem much faster at all. SO5, on the
other hand, seems much faster to me than SO4, takes only 3/4 the time to
load (after a fresh reboot so caching doesn't jade the results), and
hardly budges the used RAM meter on xsysinfo at all. AND, the equation
editor works again (worked in SO4 for me, broke in SO4 "SP3", and now
seems to work again).
The downside is that they made it look even *more* like Windows, and act
more like Office right down to the huge footprint on the hard disk.
Hope this helps.
-Fred
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