Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: System requirements |
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Author | Helen Borrie |
Post date | 2004-01-21T10:18:46Z |
At 11:05 AM 21/01/2004 +0100, you wrote:
As for subsequent Windows versions, all it takes is for someone to decide
to do it - you, for example, if your platform isn't described and you think
it should be included.
As for the release notes - you don't read carefully enough. Any "gotchas"
and recommendations that are known with any platforms are documented
there. You *do* need both volumes of the releasenotes if you want to have
a fully-incremented doc set.
/hb
> > Yes - RTFM, as they say - IB6 Opguide.pdf will give you the generalYep, all those will still work.
> > picture. You'll save some small amount of disk space by not having the
> > full server installed.
>
>Thanks for the hint. And please dont RTFM me for not looking in the IB6
>manuals. I thought that those would be totally out of date, given the fact
>that after IB6 there have been 2 FB versions released.
>
>I couldn't (and still can't) find such a section in the FB1.5 release
>notes. It might be a good idea to update the release notes with a "System
>Requirements" section similar to the IB6 Operations Guide.
>
>Finally, are those IB6 figures still accurate, or should they be
>"upgraded" after 4 years:
>
>Windows system requirements:
>
>Operating system: Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4, Windows 95 with
>Service Pack 1, or Windows 98
>
>Memory: 16 megabytes minimum; 64 recommended for a server
>
>Processor/Hardware model: 486DX2 66MHz minimum; Pentium 100MHz or greater
>recommended for a multiclient server
As for subsequent Windows versions, all it takes is for someone to decide
to do it - you, for example, if your platform isn't described and you think
it should be included.
As for the release notes - you don't read carefully enough. Any "gotchas"
and recommendations that are known with any platforms are documented
there. You *do* need both volumes of the releasenotes if you want to have
a fully-incremented doc set.
/hb