All this talk about DataBases

[Scott Kane]

From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>

G'day Chipp,

> Are you saying you have Rev stack corruption problems on Windows?

One person had problems on Win 98 with one of my stacks.  Repeatedly.  I 
took the same application to another machine (running Win 2K) and there was 
not a single error.  Their HD checked out, RAM was minimal but adequate for 
the task, but it kept failing.  Could not reproduce the error even in a VM 
with Win 98 as the client.  So I came to the conclusion it was the vagaries 
of Win98. It didn't bother me much as I've found Win 98 users don't tend to 
buy new software much anyway (though they sure like the free stuff and 
demand that that runs <g>).

> Since I started using MetaCard and Rev, I've never..not  once..encountered 
> a stack corruption error. As you know, I've
> delivered several commercial apps, for Altuit and other customers, and to 
> my knowledge have never had a report of a corrupted data stack
> either.

I might have been unlucky, but I've seen Access do the same thing along with 
Paradox, dBase and all the other flatfile db's - yet work flawlessly with 
Win2K and above.  Fat32 never was "robust".  ;)

> AFAIK, the RAM architecture Raney designed early on, is working extremely 
> well!

Indeed and I'm certainly not complaining or trying to give the impression of 
anything other than that.  I don't have any respect for Win95, 98 or Mil 
however.

Scott Kane
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