Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:54:13 GMT, "Dunny" <paul.dunn4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The people I write stuff for are a charity group, and can't afford new
computers. And why should they fork out for P4s, multi-gigahertz machines
when these things don't offer anything that they need?

Maybe I should ask my users to send you their outdated 486's :-)

They are mostly pensionists (up to 95 year of age) interested in
computerized genealogy.
(But also many younger ones).
.

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