>>Hi,
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>>I am using VFP 5a to create application. What is the rough guideline
>>or what kind of system requirement like the processor speed, hardisk
>>space plus the memory is required for my application.
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>>What spec determined the system requirements ? Please advise, thank you
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>I don't think there's a hard and fast rule. I had a small vfp5 app running in Win95 on 486-75s with 16 RAM reasonably well, at least it seemed fast a couple years ago (it's all relative). My large vfp5 app ran fairly well on P90s with 16 RAM, and it flies on P300s with 32 RAM, in general...
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>The big exception: complex data processing on tables too large to fit into memory. Both processing speed and lack of memory slowed the app for a few special users down to a crawl on 90s, better with the 300s, but now blazingly fast with P400s and 128 RAM...
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>The big key to all this is testing under real-data situations...find the worst possible machine you expect your app might have to run under, and see how it does, basically...

I have a 486, 66 with 8 Mb +networking which I use to test (including a document management program which loads and uses MSWord and Exchange) - not encountered any problems with any application yet, but I like to have a book handy for reading between mouse-clicks.