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- Subject: Re: Advanced Revelation information request
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.211225.21298@massey.ac.nz>
- From: D.M.Todd@massey.ac.nz (D.M. Todd)
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:12:25 GMT
- References: <92Dec12.152128.17650@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1globmINNn4t@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Keywords: Revelation
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- I have little to add to Chad's detailed response (in fact I learned
- some things from it). One (possibly) minor point about disk space.
- Revelation uses variable length fields. In our application, which
- involves substantial amounts of text of highly varying lengths, this
- saves an incredible about of storage space. As for machine
- requirements, I think it will still run on just about anything, but
- 386 platform is needed to give a little memory breathing-room
- (_essential_ if you are on a network) and for the speed.
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