Hosting filePro applications

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:15:27 -0500):
>[...]
>> d) CPU hogging.  If you leave fP on linux at the "select file" screen
>> (or any other of that kind), someone uses waitkey, etc., and you're
>> timesharing a system, that's potentially a nightmare wherein those
>> polling loops eat CPU in realtime.
>
>None of the above-listed items eat CPU.
>
>[...]
>> There are (what I consider bugs, like that polling loop) issues in fP
>> that don't lend themselves towards a friendly multi-company shared
>
>What polling loops?

The last so-called professional accounting system I saw that had
polling loops was written in Business BASIC, and would bring an
SCO OpenServer box to its knees if a client terminated abnormally
(can you spell Windows telnet client dying when Windows crashed).

If I remember correctly, the system was MAS90.

     It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
     students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
     programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
     regeneration.  -- Dijkstra

Bill
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