On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:25, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gogulus wrote:
>
> > As the clients should be able to work without network connection, they
> > have to have a local database, and if net connection is on, do the
> > synchronization with master db. The main idea is, sale cannot stop
> > because of net connection breakage.
> >
> > That's why I am asking if 100 Mhz of CPU, 32 Mbytes of RAM can take care
> > of a database with around 100 tables, 3-4 of these tables having
> > 50-60000 of records, others have at most 1000.
>
> I would say yes, but I would also say that you should design this around a
> character based interface. The overhead of a GUI is gonna make it much
> slower.
>
> I don't know if you're familiar with the ncurses library, but that's what
> I'd use, along with C or a lightweight scripting language like Perl or
> PHP.
Or Python, which has an excellent curses library.
How could he do local and remote access in PHP? Wouldn't a local
Apache server (which takes more RAM) be necessary?
Also regarding PHP, "links" is a great text-mode web browser that
handles style sheets and frames.
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