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. > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com