aegis@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU ( Dartmouth Yearbook) (02/28/88)
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
Reply to: aegis@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDUliemandt@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU (Joe Liemandt) (03/02/88)
In article <8283@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> aegis@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Aegis - Dartmouth Yearbook) writes: > >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) 4th Dimension will be fine. It can easily handle 5,000 records on a Plus. 4D stores a pointer in memory for each record. So the theoretical maximum is about 100,000 records on a 1 meg machine.(4D uses about 550-600k of memory itself) I personally have a 7,500 record file in 4D and it runs fine on a Plus. Because 4D only stores pointers for records, the size of your datafile is not a concern, number of records is. E-mail if you have any more questions. Joe Liemandt liemandt@jessica.Stanford.EDU