Re: A 21st Century Apple II?

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

apple2freak@gmail.com wrote:

> Here I believe you are wrong.  I just loaded up Pages 2008 (Apple's
> version of MS Word) on my (Intel) Mac.  It has a RSS of 77 megabytes,
> and is, I believe, implemented in Objective C (which is more-or-less
> equivalent to C++).  Next, I loaded up OpenOffice 3.0 (which is
> implemented in Java) and selected the word processor.  It has a RSS of
> 130 megabytes, which is 69% larger.  Both pieces of software implement
> approximately equivalent sets of functionality.  This is far from the
> few percent as you suggest.

I think your statement about OO 3.0 being written in Java is not correct. They 
use Java for some extension functions, but the applications are C++ code.