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To: HeyRainier who wrote (1684)	9/13/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: Scott H. Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1720

Reason 5,000 why I HATE MS apps!!!!!. They consume HUGE amount of memory and are among the WORST offenders at not giving back all the exorbadent amount of resources the consumed when started. At Penn Hosp, even on a 64 meg PC, I'd have to boot at least daily since they had standardized on MS apps & I'd run out of memory. Back in the early 70's, I wrote programs on IBM's 1st departmental system, the 3790. While it could support up to 64 users, each program had an address space of 256 BYTES. MS project will consume 20% of memory on a 32 meg PC. Since most PC's with 32mb boot up with only about 30-40% remaining after Win 95 & swap area boot (plus typically TSR style programs such as anti-virus apps or Norton Utilities) That almost criminal, and INCREDIBLY SLOPPY, UN-PROFESSIONAL CODING. When you combine that with the fact that a project management piece of software I used in the early 90's running under DOS & thus existing within the 640k address space WAS FAR BETTER than MS Project 98, you have a glimpse of why I hate the arrogant products of MS, who achieved their place my strong arms tactics rather than producing good products. When I develop documents, I use a real word processor, WordPerfect (I have to buy my own copy since every company I work at & every client has gone to MS, not since they're good, but to be compatible with everybody else. Gues peer pressure does not stop when you graduate. Professional grownups still make brain-optional decisions. Scott