My earlier apps were intend to use under win 3.1x. In Hungary among my "clients"
widely used approach, that workstation machines boot up from server, (Nt and Novell both support this solution - only requires network cards with boot rom) thus local winchester is unnecessary, so machines are cheaper.
As I know, theoretically win95 can boot up from server, too, without local drive. But I have not experience in win95 "world", that it is used solution or not. Personally I never have seen any PC running Win95 without local harddrive, but "more eyes can see more case" (hungarian idiom)

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>>Is an acceptable assumption, that local drive exists in a machine running
>>win95 or nt?
>>I am at design time with my 1st vfp app and already saw that this fact has big impact on the performance. Thus I want to minimize the network traffic (this is the bottleneck as I understand). But minimizing network traffic means necessity of local drive.
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>>Any opinion?
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>>TIA
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>I really got puzzled, because I have never seen "a machine running win95 or nt" not having 'local drive'. Could you explain what kind of workstation you mean?