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to: Geo.
from: John Cuccia
date: 2003-03-06 18:13:54
subject: Re: Notepad on Windows 98

From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:37:46 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:st3d6v8pgbc781rtf25l70n39o807voucd{at}4ax.com...
>
>> >The NT version of notepad can open text files well over 20mb in size.
>>
>> It just takes patience. 
>
>Not if you have 533 fsb and fast drives .

Actually it only takes a bit under 8 seconds here, P3-700 with a very average drive.

I haven't actually needed to edit a 20 MB text file in a very long time,
but recall it as having been particularly painful back then, on what was
probably a P100-class machine.

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