RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

Bob,

Actually I'm saying that my 850MHz Athlon at home ran rings around the
1.6GHz P4 I have at work when it came to developing in WDSCi.

Not just simply testing either.  8+ hours of coding with WDSCi, multiple
CA 5250 sessions running, Adobe Acrobat running with the SQL and RPG
reference manuals at minimum.  iSeries Navigator and "Run SQL Scripts"
open. In addition to having Word and/or Excel/Visio open with various
spec documents.  Usually with Outlook Express opened too.

Believe me Bob, it was quite usable with < 1GB RAM.

Oh yeah, Norton AV was running in the background at home and at work.

Now I'm not talking about the having the Websphere Test environments
running...this is strictly RPG development.

But still quite usable.


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.
> 
> Wilt,
> Are you saying that you have a bigger, faster machine at work 
> on which you
> use WDSc? But at home for an occasion test just to see if 
> it'll work, an
> 850Mhz CPU with 3/4Meg RAM is functional? How about using 
> WDSc on a system
> like your home PC exclusively, then tell people it runs quite happily.
> You can't load _and effectively use_ an Office application 
> (WORD, Excel, or
> PowerPoint), a 5250 emulator (other than Mocha), and WDSc on 
> a machine with
> that configuration. Any productivity gains from what ever 
> they call their
> auto-complete feature is far and away diminished by the lock 
> ups/freezes and
> overall sluggishness of your machine from WDSc (or WDSCi). 
> 1 Gig memory is minimum. Not to be rude, anyone who tells you 
> differently is
> trying to sell you a used car with defect they are trying to 
> cover up. Sure
> it runs in less than 1Gig, yeah, that's the ticket!
> 
> 
> -Bob Cozzi
> www.RPGxTools.com
> RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.