Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
You could try the database API that is included with ZooLib. It has a C++ api. It doesn't have a network protocol of any sort, although a network server has been built with it that uses a proprietary (and I imagine special-purpose) protocol. It's pretty efficient. You should get the code tha

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
The flat file database "Nosql" is small and fast and uses very little resources. It runs using sed, awk and perl scripts. If you use it with a small shell like "ash" for example it should fulfill all the requirements you have for your muffler shop. Mike On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:23:30PM -0500,

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread dman
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:01:16AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: | Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 | differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. | | While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is | going to be in a muffler shop

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread John Hasler
Alex writes: > While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use... It would be nice in terms of initial user comfort and familiarity, but an ncurses UI would provide more ease of use. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 00:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 > differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. > > While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is > going to be in a muffler shop, so a mouse

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is going to be in a muffler shop, so a mouse wouldn't survive long anyway. That leaves me with ncurses and

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I had Slackware installed on a 486/100 box running as a web server for a while. I think it had 16 MB of ram. It worked OK. I could run X on it, but the GUI wasn't terribly responsive. For comparison, at Geonex Verde we wrote a bunch of curses applications on Sun 3/160's that were 16 MHz 6802

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:05, Alan Shutko wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > > dealership. > > We have clients running inventory, provis

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > dealership. We have clients running inventory, provisioning and billing software on 486s, with 10 or so active user

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:24, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > dealership. The problem being, the computers that he has available are 2 > 486s and a Pentium Pro. Obviously,