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On 1/15/11 6:45 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> About PDF now: I remember when it appears in the 199Xs, this was an ogre, consuming too much CPU power and memory. This was best used for printing than for on-screen reading (the HD was scrapping and grinding as much as you were scrolling your document). Word documents, on the opposite, was opening fast and with fluidity. This may explain why MS Word document was the first favorite at that time. Later and now, with memory and CPU speed increases (I hope 1GHz CPU and 1GB memory is at last enough to open a PDF smoothly), PDF become more usable for on-screen reading (this is planned to be one of the favorite format for e-Books).


Somewhere on the quoted line you say that PDF was slow in 199X.
I have seen Display Postscript running nicely on high end PC
hardware of the time.