>What should be the minimal configuration to run an application developed with VFP ?
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>The application works locally and manages 6 tables, with 3 tables opened simustaneusly at most, and some temporaly cursors for list choices. It requires 14 MB on hard disk for installation.
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>I don't think this is a big application, but when runing on a 486 DX4 80 mhz, 8 MB RAM, it really slows down. Even launching the VFP runtime library (Vfp300.esl) takes a long time, loading menus and forms it's also time consuming, and the tables are empty!.
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>I don't think this machine is slow or small for the kind of application I'm talking about. Office applications works fine and are much more complex, but this is the first VFP application I've developed and I don't know if this is normal

It probably is normal, unfortunately. I have run my apps on 486DX100's with 8Megs and it was.... OK. Obviously, a Dual Pentium 200 with about 96 Megs is your best bet, but..... (g)

I do all of my development (and initial testing) on pentiums, and once the app is loaded, it is fast enough.

VFP has a large overhead, so there isn't much you can do besides up your hardware.

Scot.