bringing up an 8f...

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Mon Apr 5 04:17:08 1999

>On 5 Apr 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> > Are you insane? The excrutiatingly slow and bloated Microsoft Word
>> > screams compared to Acrobat.
>>
>> Not when the Word file contains 300 DPI scanned images.
>
>Still, the point is they're both slow and annoying and I hate them both.
>
>Ok, I do like the very beautiful formatted pages that can be had with PDF,
>but its just too slow and bloated to be useful to me at this juncture in
>my computer technology arsenal. I would probably like PDF more as the
>preferred format for old computer documentation if I had like a dual
>Pentium II 450 system with scads of hard drive storage, a superfast
>graphics accelerator, coupled with my super-fast cable modem connection to
>the internet. But the fact is I don't, and not many other people do
>either.

I am using a Mac 7200/90 (90 mhz PPC 601) with the graphics built into the
motherboard, and I have been reading a lot of .pdf files lately (manuals
etc.). Its not flipping pages in a book, but I don't see it as that slow.
Typical is what I would call the speed.

An accurate manual is SUCH a nice thing to have, a little slow I can live with.
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 04:17:08 BST