[Dataperf] Practical limit to number of keep-a-totals on a single panel?

2018-07-12 Thread Dave Britten
I've been working on a basic consulting time/billing database (I've been busy lately; spreadsheets aren't cutting it anymore), and my time entry panel is up to a whopping 24 keep-a-total definitions spread across 4 auto-calculated fields and going through 6 different links. This is to support va

Re: [Dataperf] Practical limit to number of keep-a-totals on a single panel?

2018-07-12 Thread Ralph Alvy
I never experienced a limit doing KATs that way. I never had cascading KATs. On 12 Jul 2018, at 7:33, Dave Britten wrote: I've been working on a basic consulting time/billing database (I've been busy lately; spreadsheets aren't cutting it anymore), and my time entry panel is up to a whopping

Re: [Dataperf] Practical limit to number of keep-a-totals on a single panel?

2018-07-12 Thread Dave Britten
Good to know. So far I haven't seen any problems testing with DOSBox set to 5000 cycles. How a 16 MHz 186 handles it remains to be seen. ;) Thanks Ralph. -Dave Britten > On Jul 12, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote: > > I never experienced a limit doing KATs that way. I never had cascading KA

Re: [Dataperf] Practical limit to number of keep-a-totals on a single panel?

2018-07-12 Thread Tim Rude
I'm guessing it will do well with it. CPU's of that ilk were pretty much DP's original target audience. :) Tim Rude On 7/12/2018 3:39 PM, Dave Britten wrote: > Good to know. So far I haven't seen any problems testing with DOSBox set to > 5000 cycles. How a 16 MHz 186 handles it remains to be se