[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

John,

I loved CompuServe, especially when it became a local call. That's what gave me my biggest boost as a developer, I think.

I was curious about Francisco's reference to the deployment of the .NET framework, too. I'm sure he means when you construct a Windows Application as a .NET Project, THEN you've got to make sure that the user has the framework stuff. But, as far as I can tell, an ASP .NET application doesn't even require Windows to run, just a browser, eh?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov-18-2004 12:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET
> 
> I'm trying to peer through the fog of advancing age to the days of 
> yore... I
> remember using CompuServe back in the olden days but it really just 
> looked
> like a huge BBS system to me.  File storage and some email / news group
> thingies.  Paying for long distance charges to hit the nearest access 
> point,
> then painfully downloading files at 9600 baud (300 and 1200 on my first
> modems).  If you want to call that the internet, then fine.  I've had a
> modem in (or on) every machine I have owned since 1981 or thereabouts, 
> and I
> know full well that "the internet" existed back in the day but whatever
> existed in 1990 in no way, shape or form equates to what we call the
> internet today.  
> 
> My grama would say "of course we had cars back in 1902, we had one".  
> Yea
> right!  Yes, they existed, it had an engine and four wheels but a 10 
> year
> old child from today would mostly look at and ask what it was.  
> 
> So "yea right", you were on the internet in 1990.
> 
> On to more important things...
> 
> >that being said, any machine that does not have the .net runtime and 
> then
> IS loaded w/ it, you'll notice a significant performance drop on the 
> pc.
> 
> I have never noticed this, though I haven't really looked for it 
> either.
> Why would that be true?  It is my understanding that the .net framework 
> is
> not used at all unless some application calls it.  Is something built 
> into
> Windows calling it?  If so how does it function without it there to 
> begin
> with?
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com