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From: aegis@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU ( Dartmouth Yearbook)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: HUGE DATABASE ON THE MAC!
Message-ID: <8283@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 88 22:05:42 GMT
Reply-To: aegis@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Aegis - Dartmouth Yearbook)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: 4th Dimension


I work for the Dartmouth Yearbook and we are transfering our
database from a mainframe to a mac.
The database is comprised of ~4000 records with 30 fields per record.

I am considering a Mac SE w/ 20M internal drive.  The software would
probably be 4th Dimension. The database file is approxiamately 5 MegaBytes.
Does anyone know any problems this configuration will have?  Suggestions?
I am concerned about 4D being able to sort a 5MByte file with only 1 Meg
of memory. (4D itself is a 750k)

                              -Much Thanks
                                Eric Korenman

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