[maemo-users] N900 features

[From: Peter Flynn]

Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Flynn <peter.flynn at mars.ucc.ie> writes:
> 
>     Peter> I've never quite understood why, given that only 10 years
>     Peter> ago, my main system was a 64Mb desktop running Red Hat 3 or
>     Peter> something, and WordPerfect for Linux (another monolithic
>     Peter> monster) executed quite usably, if slowly. I would have
>     Peter> thought that in the intervening decade, technology would
>     Peter> have advanced a little more than this.
> 
> It has -- Microsoft Word has invented lots more kinds of bloat than
> they had 10 years ago, so a program that tries to read all possible
> Word documents has to be lots bigger.

Natch :-) But I was really talking about the execution of the program 
per se at any stage, rather than in the state where it has to read 
bloated formats.

> Software never gets faster.  When they make the hardware faster, they
> make the software slower to compensate.

I can, however, still run TeX on my N800 nearly as fast as on my laptop.

///Peter