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

 Well, based on my experiences of local Oracle 7.3 on NT 4 with development tools on top I would suggest, as *minimums*:

• 2 Gig hard disk space
• 64 Meg RAM
• 166 Pentium
• decent graphics card (eg, Matrox Mill.)

Obviously 'the more the better', so my dream system would be an upgrade to:

• 6-8 Gig disk space, SCSI 2 Wide (Seagate Cheetah drives)
• 128 Meg RAM
• Pentium II (266 or 300) Pref. two processors.

One option worth looking at is sticking with the non-MMX versions of the Pentium 1 series chips, especially as Intel have just cut the prices by up to 50%. I've always found that local Oracle + development tools are far more *memory* dependent than anything else (esp. when running on NT), after lots of RAM I recommended a better disk drive, and finally a processor upgrade.

Steve Phelan.

doug a blaisdell wrote in article ...

>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 Jul 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT