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From: millerje@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Jeff Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Quattro Pro 3.0
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Date: 23 Apr 91 16:04:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.164953.26544@newross.Princeton.EDU> nfs@elan.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
>In article <1991Apr19.165121.18856@pa.dec.com> leadfoot@leftlane.ucs.dec.com (Mark Curtis) writes:
>>How much more disk space does this new version need?
>
>Quattro Pro 3.0 seems to take about 100Kb more space on my hard disk
>than 2.0.  That is inconsequential, unlike the code bloat that we
>see in numerous other pieces of software.
>
>You want to see something huge -- buy Borland C++ and watch it eat
>15 Mb.
>
>Norbert

Two points:

1. Unless you have <40MB of disk space, I personally think the quality of
program is MUCH more important than the disk space it uses, and

2. We bought Borland c++ at work, and without the windows stuff and the
examples, it fits in approx. 9 MB, which is not shabby considering that's
a c, c++ compiler, debugger, assembler and profiler.
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