Plugin Bloat (speeding up OpenOffice?)

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:13:28 John Chambers uttered:

> Actually, I'd say that it's not so much that most users want "more
> features", as they want some specific features that they've been
> using with whatever software they've been using
Essentially is a feature of a capitalist society. 
But, even at the kernel level, look at the number of different file systems
we support, such as ext2, ext3, reiserfs, JFS, XFS, Minix, FAT, NTFS, and
even JCSOFS. We need to support many different forms of comms, such as
Ethernet, wireless, and others. And, that also adds many different chipsets,
et. al. Then you have the different CPUs from the x86 to the 64-bit Alphas
and IA64s. 

Back in the 80s when I was working for Cadmus, we were able to build a 1/2MB
box with System V Unix. 

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