Wes, In order to provide some of the new features that were requested for DXbase 2003, it was necessary to expand some of what occurs at program bootup. Those who are using more recent technology computers will not notice any difference and once the program is booted, many of the features actually perform faster owing to some improved efficiencies that were introduced in this release. However, those who use the old and much slower machines of years ago will no doubt see some added time during the bootup process. Your actual experience will also be dictated by your specific machine, amount of free memory, hard drive access speed, and other programs running simulataneously. Nearly all computers being manufactured today have CPU speeds up around a 1Ghz and the top of the line are nearly 2Ghz. Substantially faster than the 7 to ten year old technology of 133mhz. And the good news is that they are much cheaper than they used to be.
Regards, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes (N7WS) and Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 1:39 PM Subject: [DXBase] Mixing versions > I finally got around to upgrading to '2003. > > I have noted that it is much slower to load on my PIII-450 with 256M RAM > than was '2002, so I am reluctant to even try it on my hamshack logging > laptop, a 133MHz with only 64M RAM. > > 1) Why is it so much slower? > > 2) I have tried opening the database from 2003 using 2002 on my desktop > and it appears okay, but if I leave 2002 on my laptop can I pass the .mdb > file(s) back and forth without losing anything? > > Wes > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
