Al,

Considering that you can't buy 24 mb of ram you really have to spend that 80 (this notebook to go from 256 to 512 is either $150 or $350 if you do it with 2 or 1 dimms) count at least 30 minutes of machine downtime to install the memory multiplied by the N developers in a shop it amounts to a lot more than $3.

And yeah I consider it pretty much a hog to take 31mb just to get running. VC6 is a svelte 8mb like VFP8.

On this box VFP8 is up and ready for command prompt input in 1 second. VS.Net2003 takes 9 seconds to start.

>My point is that if you consider a memory "hog" to be a bad thing, what is the cost of that bad thing? As it turns out, not very much.
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>>Al,
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>>The point was just that it is a memory hog, not how much the memory cost was. Doing something trivial in it the other day I had it up to 80mb.
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>>>512MB RAM from Crucial is $70-80. So, the extra 24MB is about $3.