Eaton.HFED%hi-multics@sri-unix.UUCP (03/15/84)
I have had a couple very positive responses on "The Champion" accounting
system to date and am very seriously considering purchasing it. There
are however three nagging questions that still remain in my mind.
1. Just how much of a nuisance are the menus if you don't really
need to use them?
2. Since it is written in an interpretive language (dBASE with runtime),
is it slow to the point of being aggravating?
3. I know it is available for the PC but is it also available for CP/M?
Rene Moore mentioned an issue of Interface Age which contained an article that
compared several business accounting packages. Rene, could you pinpoint the
exact issue? I haven't been able to locate it yet.
The price of this software, as far as I,m concerned is staggering but if it
is indeed "The Champion" as it's name implies, it may well be worth it. (I
can't believe I said that.)
Jesse (sell more of them at a reasonable price)
Eaton.HFED@HI-MULTICSBicer.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (03/15/84)
Yes, I have seen Champion working under CP/M. Actually, since it is written in DBASE II, it will run on any machine that supports DBASE II. One nice thing that I noticed that it requires very little disk space for programs (compared to CB80 or Mirosoft Compiled programs). Since the program is I/O bound, The fact that they are interpreted should not be much of a problem. As a matter of fact, since most of the accounting programs I know mostly do sequential file I/O in basic, this one may even be faster. Jack