If i was to have a word document with 20,000 merged pages
what sort of spec would my pc need to be to open the
document quickly. Or I had a database of 1 million records
and needed to mail merge the database quickly what spec
would i need?

Hello

What ever you can afford

Alvin


Dave Currie wrote:

> If i was to have a word document with 20,000 merged pages
> what sort of spec would my pc need to be to open the
> document quickly. Or I had a database of 1 million records
> and needed to mail merge the database quickly what spec
> would i need?

IBM Mainframe


"Dave Currie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| If i was to have a word document with 20,000 merged pages
| what sort of spec would my pc need to be to open the
| document quickly. Or I had a database of 1 million records
| and needed to mail merge the database quickly what spec
| would i need?

A mainframe. Similar to the kind used by large corporations.

"Dave Currie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:086c01c3d3a2$e30bf440$(E-Mail Removed)...
> If i was to have a word document with 20,000 merged pages
> what sort of spec would my pc need to be to open the
> document quickly. Or I had a database of 1 million records
> and needed to mail merge the database quickly what spec
> would i need?

Top of the line "Workstation" not PC, with dual P4 2.5Ghz Xeon or
Itanium Processors, at least 2-4GB of RAM and RAID 0 SATA disk setup with a
800Mhz FSB, and a large pocket book. About a 8-12 G's in price ;-) FYI -
Mainframes are very efficient at processing "sequential" data, but if your
database is "relational", such as an SQL/Oracle Database, then best bet
would be to run a flavor of UNIX with a RAID 10 or 50 setup - and yes then
the mainframe could be used as long as you have an LPAR running AIX.


"Dave Currie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:086c01c3d3a2$e30bf440$(E-Mail Removed)...
> If i was to have a word document with 20,000 merged pages
> what sort of spec would my pc need to be to open the
> document quickly. Or I had a database of 1 million records
> and needed to mail merge the database quickly what spec
> would i need?