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- From: rogers_m@watson.bms.com (MICHAEL ROGERS)
- Subject: Microsoft Access
- Message-ID: <12DEC199211531230@watson.bms.com>
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- Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:53:00 GMT
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- I got Access yesterday, dismayed to learn there is no runtime license
- included, supposed to be a runtime kit in Feb. which will list for $495.
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- The program is _S_L_O_W_. It does disk read/writes while nothing seemingly is
- going on, i.e., you're sitting there reading the help screen for a few
- minutes, and the hard drive kicks in for a few seconds for no obvious reason.
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- I admit I'm a newbie dbms user, but I never thought it would be like this.
- Wait for Paradox Win, seems this was rushed to market to get the jump on
- Borland and still needs a good bit of optimization.
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