Вспоминаю один из своих первых домашних компьютеров с...

I recall one of my first home computers with a processor frequency of 100 MHz and 32 MB of memory, and I think. W! Ndows 3.11 and W0rd 6.0 stood on it, and all this worked quite quickly. Why, then, on a 17 times faster Netbook with a gigabyte of memory, working with documents in W0rd XP means constant waiting, constant compensation for lack of memory by disk swapping? Well, what happened in W0rd, which can slow down that way? Own clipboard? Animation on the text? Improvements in graph-table-diagrams? Any other features that are not needed in 90% of cases? Yes, the fonts have been changed, but this cannot give such a load. The clear feeling is that if it were not for the difference in formats, so far in most cases it would have been quite possible to get by with version 6.

I will not say anything about versions 2007-2013, which again have a very difficult to understand list of new features, except that the formula editor is better, but still no, and even an extremely dubious interface, but again they use their own format, which is not available to older versions. Well, right, but how else to get a person to switch to a new version differently than by sending him an unreadable file? But the question still remains open - why could a word processor be used calmly on a 100 MHz computer, and the idea of ​​importing something like that on a 600-800 MHz phone or a gigahertz tablet juggles it? Especially considering the fact that open LibreOffice works almost more slowly.

But with TeX this does not happen. There are much more possibilities in it - in the form of packages that add new elements, as well as significantly simplify the adjustment of existing text elements, and compiles on the tablet perfectly and in a reasonable amount of time. And portability is hardly absolute. And after all, people just need to try a little and learn how to use a quality product, so that, finally, the legacy of M $ W0rd goes into oblivion ...

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