A.5. Stand Alone Development Workstation

In this configuration a workstation will be used to develop applications locally. The source code will be kept on the local hard drive and the editing and compiling will take place on the same machine.

The main concern with this configuration would be in the area of processor and memory, and in having a backup system in place to ensure that data is not lost in the even of a hardware failure.

A typical developer's machine will have a processor in the 800+ MHz range and, depending on the scope of the application being developed, may have more than one processor. The available memory will again depend on the type of application be written with typical machines having in excess of 256 MB of memory and, in ...

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