Comments: Minimum PC H/W to run Oracle Developer 2000?

You want at least a Pentium with 32Megs of ram with plenty of hard disk space. But you will get more performance with more memory.

Thomas Ladew

In article <33e24339.7684479_at_news.hacom.nl>, marvaes_at_hacom.nl (Mario van Essen) writes:

>Doug,
>
>I am running the whole Dev2k set on a Pentium Pro 200 with 32 Mb of
>internal mem and a 4 Gb HD. It runs 'great', meaning it performs
>without any frustrations. For the database I am using Personal Oracle
>7.2. Repository generation takes about 2-3 hours, do it by the book
>and it will perform well. The whole Des2k, Dev2k and Repository will
>cost you about 1 Gb.
>
>Mario
>
>
>On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:19:07 GMT, dougb_at_world.std.com (doug a
>blaisdell) wrote:
>
>>Hi Everbuddy--
>>
>>I just came from a job doing admin for Oracle 7.3 on NT4.0, and some
>>design with Designer 2000, and found out what a resource hog NT4.0 is.
>>
>>On my vacation (serious hackerness), I'd like to get familiar with Developer
>>2000 on my PC at home. It's a P133, 32MB, 2.5 Gig. I can get a trial copy
>>for either 3.1, Win 95, or Win NT from Oracle. Also, to cut down
>>overhead, I suppose I could run against a trial copy of Personal Oracle 7,
>>instead of the full blown database.
>>
>>I wonder whether I should run NT, since it has considerable overhead of its
>>own, but on the other hand, NT doesn't crash all the time, like Win 3.1.
>>
>>Has anyone had experience with the stability/performance of Dev. 2000 on
>>any of these platforms, and have any comments about minimum hardware
>>requirements?? I'd appreciate it.
>>
>>thanks,
>>doug
>>
>
Received on Tue Aug 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT