[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about their Office Suite, but I had WP8 running on a P75 with 16MB
of memory. It was a touch slow, but perfectly usable. I couldn't say the same
for StarOffice, which I tried on the same machine. It was functionally unusable
until I added more memory. Constantly thrashing into swap. With 48MB. SO was
usable.

So, I'd say it'd probably stand a good chance of runnin ok on a P120, provided
you had enough memory.

Greg


On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> FWIW, I've seen WP8 for Linux run on a 50Mhz 486 very usably.  :-)
> 
> I think that was under Slackware... a former coworker (who I believe is on
> this list, and may pipe up if he feels something should be added) had it
> running on his 486 laptop at work, easily outperforming MS Office 97(?) on
> the P120's we had at the time running Win95.
> 
> But that's really unrelated to the topic at hand, I believe... so disregard
> this post as you deem appropriate :-)
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 11:41:21PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I suspect that it will work, albeit rather (perhaps intolerably?)
> > slowly.  If you have prior Linux experience, you might want to look at
> > a distribution that can be better tweaked for old machines, such as
> > Debian or Slackware.
> > 
> > James <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > My mom got a new laptop for cheap, and I thought it could run Corel's
> > > Office Suite. I went to CompUSA and found it said it required a 166+ MHz
> > > processor. The computer she got only has a 120MHz processor. I was
> > > wondering if it will work (all other requirements are met), but just run
> > > slower, or if it will not work at all. If it does then I can finally get
> > > her to use Linux, right now she uses Winblows 95, so please say someone
> > > found/knows a way to make it work.
> > > 
> > > James
> > > 
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