Spehro said:
Having multiple windows open into a single large file is something I
can't live without. The syntax highlighting and code folding features
are nice if you do much programming. Even the latest versions load
pretty fast.
I am not much of a programmer. Some SCADA scripts maybe, here and there
a review and suggestions for some assembler, that's almost it (for now).
Seems like Mosaic rolled off the cliff by now. But I still have it on a
floppy, somewhere
'cause not everything has to have FTP and a web browser built in. And
it loads a lot faster if it doesn't.
ACDSee 2.2 (< 0.9M!!) ca. 1997, a photo viewing program, even runs
under Win7/64. It won't read NEF/RAW files, but does everything else,
and loads like lightning.
(apparently version 7 will, but it's 12M and the current version is in
excess of 40M (50x bigger than 2.2!).
Somehow MPLAB (the free IDE for programming Microchip's products) has
gotten up to >110M download from just a few megs in the beginning.
Even the 32-bit version 6.1 was less than 20M.
That's the problem. Everything bloats beyond recognition these days.
What really causes trouble (like I had with new Thunderbird) is that
programs assume too much. I want everything hand-entered and no
secnd-guessing or defaulting on setups. But no complaints, it's designed
by people for the fun of it and not for profit.
Even mundane stuff like MS-Works which does all my book keeping here has
become like a blimp and behaved buggy over here after version 6.0.
