>>This sounds like it will be an issue to very few people. As a product advances, certain things become more complex and a performance hit is felt. This is not new. Have you tried to run VFP on a 486-66 machine? It is slow. But FoxPro for DOS is still fast on the 486. I would say the solution is to do what you have done (make MicroSoft aware of the difference) and replace all the machines with Pentium II-400s. Or, stick with 5.0 for now.
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>I won't get into all of the specifics, but telling our clients to replace all of their machines with PII-400's is not going to be a viable solution, and due to a known bug with the RESTORE FROM command in VFP 5.0a that crashes the application with an invalid page fault, staying on VFP 5.0a is not acceptable either.
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It's arguable that viability of VFP5 depends on RESTORE FROM command. There are probably plenty of old-fashioned commands which will not work properly our days.