Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!cca From: cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Database toolkits Summary: upgrade? Keywords: Resource Manager, Databases Message-ID: <1173@pur-phy> Date: 2 Jun 88 21:28:31 GMT References: <17474@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <11434@apple.Apple.Com> Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN Lines: 21 In article <11434@apple.Apple.Com>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes: > Using the Resource Manager for a database manager is *** NOT RECOMMENDED > **. PERIOD. > > The Resource Manager is moderately good at doing what is was designed to > do: handle a few dozen MENUs, DLOGs, CODE segments, etc. The Resource > Manager was speeded up quite a bit from the 64K ROMs to the 128K ROMs, > but it still is largely a linear critter. Binary trees and the like are > definitely needed for writing good database stuff, and the Resource > Manager simply doesn't do it. Actually, an upgrade to the Resource Manager so that it is faster, can handle larger numbers of resources, simultaneous access over a network, etc., is very high on my wish list. It seems this would solve a number of difficulties in one swell foop (slow Desktop file access, using a different mechanism for accessing large #'s of "resources", etc.). It seems that this should be looked at while the IAC and IPC stuff is being worked on. Maybe a letter campaign to Apple would help :-). Charlie Allen cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu