I always wonder how fast my number-crunching applications that ran on dBase III under DOS would run today on the newest hardware.
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 > To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 10:24 PM > Ive got 2G on each of my 2 Vista laptops. Fast they aint. > Anyone > remember windows 95 on 8Mb? why do we suddenly need > 250times as much > Ram to get a slower operating system? I just think an OS > should get > out of the way of applications. noone buys an OS for itself > (I hop). > They buy it for the applications that run on it. I cant > find a single > reason to upgrade from XP excepting the total lack of > choice my > laptops gave me. > > At 12:48 PM 30/10/2008, you wrote: > >Yeah, I guess I could try "running" on 256m, > or even using a 14.4 > >modem...<G> I've got 2 gig of ram on my > notebook, and it's pretty fast. I > >think you might have a better experience if you ramped > up on the ram. I hear > >it's actually pretty cheap these days. > > > >John Harvey > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >Of geoff > >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:07 PM > >To: ProFox Email List > >Subject: RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 > > > >Its never crashed on me either. but nor does it ever > connect to my > >network easily. nor does it run fast. Try and > 'run' it on 256Mb. Try > >and run a foxpro app that might do some of the naughty > things vista > >no longer permits - like putting borders around forms! > Nope. Vista is crap. > > > >At 12:16 PM 30/10/2008, you wrote: > > >I've had no problems with Vista. I've > never had a crash and my laptop is > > >ALWAYS on. > > > > > >John Harvey > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > >Of geoff > > >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:34 PM > > >To: ProFox Email List > > >Subject: Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows > 7 > > > > > >The thing that shocked me about WInXp when i first > loaded it way back > > >when was that it ran faster and far more stable > than win 98. it was a > > >genuine step forward. Can you say the same about > Vista? giant > > >headache and a step backwards. Looks nice tho. > (big deal) > > > > > >At 11:04 AM 30/10/2008, you wrote: > > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:46 PM, KAM.covad > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We just took delivery of 2 desktop > 64bit Vista 4gb memory, > > > > etc,etc. We had to get them because we have > more clients getting them. > > > > > > > >Bummer. > > > > > > > > > The first thing we noticed is that > there is no support for dos > > > > programs. We still have more than 1000 > licensed users with our FPD26 > > > > > version. There are some 3rd party > utilities available and one of > > > > our support guys got one to work, but it is > complex to set up and > > > > > we don't know what it might do to a > client's computer or other > > > > installed programs. Anyone have any feedback > on this? > > > > > > > >I would look at setting up a virtual machine > and install something > > > >like FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) into > it, and see if I could get > > > >FPD running in there. > > > > > > > >Of course, I'd rather try this under > Ubuntu or CentOS or Fedora or... > > > >well, anything else. You might want to > consider getting your DOS > > > >clients to either considering upgrading to a > Windows version or > > > >dedicating a machine to really run DOS. > > > > > > > > > The other thing we noticed was > expected. It runs slower than a > > > > Win2000 P3 computer with 256 mb memory > > > > > > > >Really? And this was a Vista-badged machine > with appropriate specs? I > > > >hear the GPU requirements are very high. > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Ted Roche > > > >Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > > > >http://www.tedroche.com > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
