seaken64
short time ago I edited a very large odt document, with nearly 600 pages- over a 1 meg in size, I had 2 versions of it open, one instance of firefox running and a small ods file open, all running without a glitch on my desktop (an i3 with 3 Gig of RAM, with no SSD)… I would not advise using a very underpowered device like my 1 gig of RAM netbook for that.
Software has changed quite a bit. Programmers no longer try to fit their programs into limited memory. It’s not necessary anymore because everyone has lots of memory and processing power. I edited long, hundreds of pages documents, books, on a computer with a 16-bit processor and 1MB of RAM using a program called Ventura Publisher. And it was not unusual in the printing business to use an old MAC512 running Aldus Pagemaker. Programmers had limited resources and figured out how to make it work.
I wonder how low in resources I can go and still edit those types of documents? Black and white, of course. And vector graphics and Postscript. That sounds like a fun experiment. I think I’ll start off with a Pentium 3 and 512MB of RAM. Scribus maybe?
Seaken64
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