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Is it safe to use VFP 8 on productions apps?
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30/01/2003 10:52:29
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Visual FoxPro
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>Do you really not think that DOS Foxpro is really still at the core of VFP. I'm sure that rushmore is a black box - who would touch something so complex. And if you think of it, the way forms and classes are stored is exactly the way FRX were stored in Foxpro Dos (ie: in a database file).
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>Nothing is as fast as Foxpro DOS - every version of Fox since has gotten slower on the same hardware - it's just that we kept getting bigger hardware.
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>BTW, is VFP 8 only available for W2K and XP - I want to run it on 98.

DOS software was character based and so-called Windows software is graphics based. Character based requires fewer resources to run. Memories of a truly slow system in 1995 incorporated CodeBook and VFP 3.0 on a then state of the art 100mhz CPU. Now that was slow! My wife correctly stated, “You will never be satisfied with the speed of any computer”!

Now that I think of it I did see a Cray Computer that looks promising! :)

Tom
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