James Button
jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Mar 17 18:48:41 CDT 2013
On a single core single processor system - But what about multi-core systems? I suspect it would also justify a very careful reading of the wording of each licence. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Source control Access > JC, > > My quasi-legal mind can spot a loophole in the contract, I think. Since > multi-tasking is a charade, albeit a fast one, two copies of software > cannot run at the same time, even if one is in the VM and the other one is > native. The situation is like that of a card dealer dealing out cards to > various players. Each process gets a brief moment in the sun, then next > process. Hence it's impossible for two copies on one machine to run at the > same time. :) > > A. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com