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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by tgv on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:50AM (#34792083)
Well, MS Word 5.1a on a mac ran really fine, as did all the Apple/ClarisWorks software. Word Perfect on a PC ran fine, too. Then came the inevitable bloat. Later versions of MS Word didn't run that smooth anymore, ClarisWorks became unsufferable. WP killed itself.

There's still lean software. Mellel (for macOS, https://www.mellel.com) is a very responsive editor, with a style edit model that's a bit different from Word. But it takes a lot of work to make something increasingly capable and keep performance.

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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by vlvdus on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:17PM (#34792583)
Interesting...I remember MS Word 5.1 on Mac being slow and crashing so often I was saving a new document every minute or so. Word Perfect (on the same mac) was stable and fast. But feature-wise both were complete for me - then and today I guess.
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