RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSc workstation requirements

[phillip.groschwitz@xxxxxxxxx]

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>> What about CPU?  Is a 750Mhz Pentium III notebook going to be useable
for
>> RPGLE?

>Interesting thing about laptops - you'll find that the processor won't
>make all that much of a difference because except on higher end units
>they usually have incredibly slow (5400RPM) disk drives.  So, since I
>suspect you have slow drives, 750MHz won't add that much more suffering.
>But suffer you will; disk intensive procedures like switching
>perspectives will be agonizingly slow at times.

Thought I'd add my experience using WDSCi on a laptop.

My laptop has a Pentium M cpu, and is rated as 1.6ghz.  When I got it I was
told that it is equivalent to a 2.4ghz P-IV.  It has 1gb RAM.  The hd is
5400rpm.

I mainly use RSE and the jlpex editor for RPG.  I have no performance
complaints with WDSCi (except for the time it takes to retrieve the list of
members in source files with a very high number of members.)

Phil