>>Multiple cores will make little difference for VFP as it can't use multiple cores. Some OS functionality will happen on the other core, thus giving you a slight improvement.
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>>Also, because VFP is a 32 bit app, 8 Gig won't benefit you any because VFP will only be able to use about 3 Gig RAM. If you get a 64 bit OS, you will again get some improvement from the OS using some of that.
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>Hmmm, that is like saying that a Multi core is not usefull because VFP is single threaded. In software development you typically run lots of programs and tools from which you indeed will benefit from larger memory, esspecially if you run SQL server on the same box.

And even within Fox, all the file manipulation is delegated to the OS, which will use other cores.