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- From: lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: What would make a decent FP2.0 Workstation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.210316.23917@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:57:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nntpd2.1992Nov10.210316.23917
- References: <BxFL5F.G94@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <BxFL5F.G94@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v125qmam@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ami R Pflugrad) writes...
- >Hi all,
- > Any thoughts on what sort of hardware req's would be
- > necessary to run some fox app's via a Novell Lan
- > at a reasonably good speed. The Current setup uses
- > Ethernet and twisted pair wiring. Im looking more for
- > CPU, RAM, and Harddisk req's.
-
- The price/performance curve right now favors 386/33's. I wouldn't go
- with anything less than that. That CPU will perform very nicely.
- I'd use at least 4MB RAM so you can run Foxpro in Extended mode. Go
- to 8MB RAM if you have a lot of databases, or large ones. But 4MB
- is pretty good. We still don't usually use local hard drives, because
- most of our networks aren't close to bandwidth saturation. Also, I
- find it harder to manage a bunch of local hard drives than a bunch
- of network directories (one per user). For example, if you need to
- delete .TMP files, clear out scratch databases, etc. Also, if you
- use a local drive for user-specific setup info, then when that user
- uses a different machine, their setup doesn't come with them like it
- does if you use network directories for that.
-
- Having said all that, the conventional wisdom still points to a local
- hard drive. If you do, go with an 80MB IDE (40's cost barely less than
- 80's, even if you can still find 40's!). I can't imagine using more
- than 10 or 20MB of it for temporary files.
-
- Randy
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