"single-sided"?   Oh boy is THAT a blast from the past...

> From: Tim Boyer 
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:35:05 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>> Ok, so basically Acrobat Reader (free version) is just Notepad on steroids.
>> It does display formatted documents, great but you can't edit anything. It's
>> a glorified file viewer that views only ONE type of file.
>> 
>> So today I was talking to an old friend about the mini systems we used to
>> run, the biggest of which had 4 massive 64MB drives on it.
>> 
>> As I'm talking to him I'm patching acrobat reader, that patch being patch
>> 7.0.7 and it's 40MB (that's FORTY MEG) long.. For a patch for a file viewer?
>> 
>> Somehow, somewhere, things have gone very very wrong..
>> 
>> Geo.
>> 
>Shit, ghostscript does Postscript _and_ pdf - and is under 4 meg total.  And m
> Unix word processor of choice - joe - will still fit on a floppy.
> 5-1/4".
> Low density.
> Single sided.
> --
> tim boyer
> tim{at}denmantire.com

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