64 bit?

64 bit?

Posted Aug 30, 2005 19:09 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)
In reply to: 64 bit? by dwheeler
Parent article: The second OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta

But if you're using a 64-bit system today, it's because you want the extra performance for an application that needs it, which isn't the office suite.

No, it's because I chose an inexpensive (~$2K) alpha workstation with the best performance/price about six years ago, and that's what sits on my desk. I run Debian, and all of my applications and libraries run about as well on my alpha as on i386 -- EXCEPT OOo. Why should I have to spend another thousand dollars for a new machine just to run an office suite, when the old one works perfectly well?

I don't feel it's my "right" to run the same apps on 64-bit as others do on 32-bit. On the other hand, it's a bit arrogant and presumptuous of people like you -- and the OOo devs -- to dismiss us 64-bit folk, instead of chastising the authors of bad code!

(No, I haven't tried to fix it, though I have fixed other software over the years from gnome-pim to gnucash to mozilla to run on PPC, alpha and ARM...)

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