Re: Best way to remove extra Microsoft fonts?

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In article <BFC46B4E.27B95%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> This was such a good idea that nearly all companies that make software for
> Mac OS X or Windows use this design. Some brave companies try to produce
> software with the more modern "multi-threaded" design. In that design, the
> application is divided up into many little pieces, each of which operates as
> if it were an independent program. Making such software is seriously
> difficult. You have to do the same amount of work needed to "write one
> program", but do it maybe 30 times over, to write 30 different pieces.
> Worse: you get the same chance of having a bug multiplied by 30. You get
> 30 times the testing problems. 30 times the debugging problems. And a
> whole new range of "timing" problems along the lines of "If I want to work
> on this part of a document, how do I know that the various other threads
> have completed their work? Can I rely on this text not being changed while
> I am trying to work on it?" The problem is so great that I am not aware of
> any multi-threaded application of any considerable size that has succeeded
> commercially on personal computers yet. There are some coming: the
> Government buys them. With our money... Nobody else can afford them!
>

John, you're not snowing us here are you? You saying that no native OS X
apps are multithreaded? Not Safari or Mail? Not the latest BB Edit or
Text Wrangler? None of the Adobe applications? They're all stuck in the
days of DOS 5? In the days of multiprocessors and GB of RAM and Linux, I
find this claim very disturbing. Word + Office I can understand.
Although I must say I've never found MS Word to be *that* slow on my 800
MHz widescreen iMac. It's pretty fast unless you're doing a few thousand
search/replace operations on a big file. It does crash periodically,
however. But that's just something Word does.

r.
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