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From: keith@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard
Message-ID: <6203@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 02:51:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 02:51:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 17:03:07 EDT
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Reply-To: keith@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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>How will HyperCard react to a really large stack?  Most of the the examples
>distributed are fairly small (except for the help stack).
>
>I have a database that doesn't have the connectivity I would like that I
>thought about doing in HyperCard.  My friends and I have been doing blind
>beer tastings once a month since 1982.  The database has about 400 beers, 
>and the ratings file is getting large: (~60 meetings X ~10 people X ~15
>beers = ~9000 records).  Is HyperCard going to choke completely if I try
>to put this up?  I would like to be able to ask questings like: How has
>a particular beer's rating been affected by the rating/characteristics
>of the previous beer that meeting?
>
>Anybody seen a ~10K stack on plus?

10K is nothing to Hypercard. Stack limits are 32K per card, with enough cards
to fill up a 4 gig file. the largest files I have personally seen are over
600K (and performance is pleasingly fast!).

Keith Rollin
Apple Computer.

Usual Apple Disclaimer applies: I just read this cause I don't want to
    do the dishes at home.