RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

Yeah, opt for a high performance graphics card too... that way u can play 
BF2 too lol...  If they ask... tell them that WDSC requires it... hehe.

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Have you ever worked on an AS/400 that was resource constrained?  Opening 
a
member list could take quite a while.  Searching members could bring the
system to its knees.  Compiling interactively would cause people to come 
and
beat you with sticks.  If you couldn't afford to upgrade your AS/400, you
lived with the delays.

These things are also slow on an underpowered PC.  But since you can get a
3GHz PC with 1GB of RAM for around $600, that shouldn't be an issue.  And 
if
you want it to hum, you spend $1500.  It's really your choice.

Joe

> From: Scott Klement
> 
> When I call WDSC slow, it's not the startup time that I'm referring to.
> It's the time it takes the outline to refresh.  The time it takes to 
open
> a member.  The time it takes to compile.  The time it takes to verify. 
The
> time it takes to search many members. The time it takes to open a branch
> of the RSE that shows the members in a file.  Etc, etc.