Re: Minimal system (was Re: Basic questions before start)

Ron Johnson wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:25, scott.marlowe wrote:
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>>On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gogulus wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>Or Python, which has an excellent curses library.
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>How could he do local and remote access in PHP? Wouldn't a local
>Apache server (which takes more RAM) be necessary?
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>Also regarding PHP, "links" is a great text-mode web browser that
>handles style sheets and frames.
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PHP has a command line version, and it's own GTK.

I write all my processing scripts in PHP to leverage all the function
and classes I've writting for the web.