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

Ron Johnson wrote:

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:25, scott.marlowe wrote: 

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gogulus wrote:
   

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.

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.     

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.

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.   

Or Python, which has an excellent curses library.

How could he do local and remote access in PHP?  Wouldn't a local
Apache server (which takes more RAM) be necessary?

Also regarding PHP, "links" is a great text-mode web browser that
handles style sheets and frames.
 

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.