>Hi !
>In meantime I thought a little bit about it.
>It DOS time we have 640 KB memory and average application was about 300KB and worked fine. Now workstation has 64-256 MB RAM. If we use simple comparison
>VFP application with exe size up to 128MB should run just fine when it is installed on local drive.
Or larger. Remember that Windows uses virtual memory too. Besides, I doubt whether the entire EXE has to be loaded all at once into RAM + virtual memory.
>In network environment we can use a launcher to start it from local drive and again all is OK with big exe file.
Although this will speed things up, maintenance (upgrading) is easier if you launch from a shared network folder.
>But there is a next question:
>what about application that runs on terminal server - does size matter in such environment (for example 20 user an 1GB memory on server) ?
Personally, I don't know about terminal server, but I understand you save the overhead of transferring the EXE over the network. Only images are transferred - and I was told (by the president of dbi-tech) that a 386 with 8 MB RAM can handle that.
Hilmar.
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