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The trend toward "bloatware" has nothing to do with 16- versus 32-bit coding
(except, perhaps, in the case of a really ignorant programmer who knows
absolutely nothing about the 32-bit API) It is almost entirely the
consequence of "featuritis", the impulse to continually add more "bells and
whistles" so the marketing people will have many great new "features" to
crow about. A rewrite of the magnitude of TS2000 (and with the same level
of debugging) would almost certainly exhibit the same slowdown and
instability even if it were from 32-bit to 32-bit.
Carroll Slemaker
----- Original Message -----
From: The Omega Man <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: PS2Ki WORKS
> ProSuite is bloatware. No doubt about it. But Omega is not alone in this
> regard - lots of software has slowed down (and become bloatware) in the
> transition from 16 to 32 bits. I didn't expect speed improvements with
> ProSuite just as I do not expect them with any other software that goes
from
> 16 to 32 bits (and becomes bloatware in the process).
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