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>That is helpful. But the question is would my "super" configuration run the same job in one hour? Or a half hour? Or 15 minutes? Or would it take the same 3.5 hours? The reason I am asking is that we have a LOT of these large jobs to run. Also even if we would gain from an improved machine, would we gain from one this improved? Is any of this sheer waste? For example will we seen NO detecable gain between 512 Meg and 1 gig? Or a few seconds. Some of the VFP 6.0 documentation suggests that VFP can take advantage of as much memory as we can give it. But is this really the case? Ditto raid 5 scsci disks are the kind of thing you use for SQL server. Will VFP benefit signifcantly with large files?

FoxPro Advisor had articles from Mac Rubel dealing with VFP and memory (among several other factors) you might want to search their web site and see if you can find them. They could be helpful in making this type of decision.

Best I can do...Hope it helps.