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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: PC database product opinions requested
Message-ID: <399@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 89 14:24:01 GMT
References: <gables.426@umigw.miami.edu> <8685@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
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In article <8685@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
=In article <gables.426@umigw.miami.edu= slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
==This is a request for opinions about dBase III + (IV ok) vs. Paradox.  I have a
==small applications that will grow with time.  The users are about as naive as
==they come.  The appilications will have two sugnificant features:
==large files (zilions of records)
==four files now, up to eight later, from which information will have to be
==extracted.
==The whole thing has to run on a PC (large disk).
==...
=
=If with a PC you mean that it has to run DOS, the large disk may not be very
=helpful, as each partition can be only about 30 Mbytes or so. So your database
=(even just one of the eight files) may not fit in one partition.
=

Sorry.  Much as I like Xenix, I have to point out that most versions of
DOS which are sold these days now have the ability to have partitions of
greater than 32 meg.  If the dos doesn't directly support it then there
is plenty of add-in software that will




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