[AccessD] Should Business use Access?

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 8 13:01:22 CDT 2014


Well, how else could you move you LAN drivers to their appropriate locations and secure a few hundred bytes for network traffic buffering? ;-)

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Collins" <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:46:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Should Business use Access?

"Excel Freezes Over"... hehehehe....  Nice one Bill.

;)

Wow...  "HIMEM.SYS".  Bloody hell.  I haven't thought about that in decades!!

Cheers
Darryl.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Benson
Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 2:25 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Should Business use Access?

Well we know why the expression is When Hell Freezes Over, rather than When Excel Freezes Over - the latter wouldn't be a very convincing measure of lengthy duration...

;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:13 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Should Business use Access?

Hi Stuart:

You must be an old fart if you can remember that. ;-) 

Even some of these modern OSs and languages still need a bit of encouragement to load and stay.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:52:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Should Business use Access?

> load  the library into "high memory"  ?

Still using 16bit MS DOS, HIMEM.SYS and QB45 are we?

;-)

--
Stuart

On 7 May 2014 at 10:59, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> 
> Everything is controlled around the invoice creation date and that 
> date is system managed. I always hard code these and load the library 
> into high memory because if this invoicing is at the front counter the 
> POS responses must be very fast.
> 


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