On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote:
> "A.Gulino" a écrit :
> > Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > There are many reasons:
> > >
> > > The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M.
> >
> > Sorry: even with only 16MB :-) (with 1.1.4 on Linux)
>
> Re Sorry : 8 MB with 1.1.5fix2 with a 386DX40 (I have to admit that I
> did add a 387 fp coprocessor) (((c:
> [snip]
It's been years since I worked on anything with 8MB, or 16, but that's not
because of LyX. It was a sad day for me when we had to start upgrading
machines to 64 and 128MB to keep them running with a well known commercial
Word Processor, produced by a well known commercial OS vendor. What I like
about LyX is that the whole question of memory use when producing documents
is largely irrelevant. It also doesn't crash when documents get big, which
happens on most traditional word processors regardless of the hardware that
they run on. I work in a very micro$oft orientated environment, where
everybody is impressed with LyX, especially after they discovered that it can
produce pdf output. I still sometimes have to explain to people that Times
New Roman is not a "standard" font:-)
Cheers
Henk
