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by MarkLowenstein 1771 days ago
On a 386, MS Word would make you sit around for 10-15 seconds looking at the splash screen. Then when you upgraded to a 486, you opened Word and it was like "bing!", you're up and running.

Now with magnitudes more speed and memory available, loading Word is...somewhere in between.

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I run Word 97 under WINE on a decade-old Thinkpad running Ubuntu.

Opening it is a joy... what was a slow, lardy app when it was new is now lean, mean and fast.