Put the program on a faster machine.  It'd be able to do sorts, etc faster, and
keep up with her.  As cheap as they are these days, there's no reason not to
pick up a Celeron or AMD K6 based computer.  Even if the program really does
require DOS and won't run under Win95/98 you'd still get a huge performance
gain.

Errol wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> At the office we run an old DOS stock control program on a 486 Cyrix 66mHz
> machine with 8meg's ram.
>
> The lady who punches the data in is so fast that she causes the computer to
> freeze about 3 times a month.

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