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> If that's the case, it's an indication of a lack of
> competence in
> both programs' designers. There are many, many
> applications
> that manage to accomplish this with much larger
> memory loads
> than either Frame or Word.
>
I think "if" is the operative word here. I believe the
memory management is the problem, but not being a
programmer I can't say with certainty.
Although both programs are serious memory hogs, I
think it's not a simple question of amount of memory
required, but of the processes used to manage the
memory. I can't imagine it being nothing but amount of
RAM because my system has 512 MB and I'm still seeing
the same kinds of Word instabilities I did when I had
64 MB. If AutoCAD can track everything under the sun
with no problems, I'd like to know how its tracking
procedures differ from Word or FM.
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