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I remember it as a ponderous resource hog.

• rufus_foreman 6y ago
  "First, you'll have to consider the prerequisites, which are pretty significant, particularly for RAM. You'll need Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or OS/2 Warp V4, an SVGA display, and, IBM says, 32MB of RAM (with 48MB recommended), at least 45MB of free disk space for the software (with an additional 30MB free disk space for swapping), and lastly, an unzip program" I think 32MB would have been about what a typical desktop would have come with in 1997, so yeah, it was a hog. I remember my manager buying extra memory for us and having us install it ourselves because he didn't want to wait for IT.
  • soonnow 6y ago
    God we used it with the IBM San Francisco framework, which was trying to model every business interaction in the world. Too say it was abstract would be an understatement. Because it was so generic it didn't just have an amount attached to an transaction, instead it modeled a Money object that had a currency object. I'm sure it was well done to some degree, but loading that framework into Visual Age absolutely killed the poor 2000 era machine.