He tried tohelp them in any way he could, offering torender the sorts of little services one might expect from a secretary or a valet rather than a colleague, for which he was reproached by a writer of his own generation, who called him obsequious and servile.
It doesn't help matters when you're trying torender that inefficient code on extremely low-end hardware, like the sub-1GHz single-core chip inside the ZTE Open.