It was fast enough to do the querys in just a second. But we knew it was the time to look for a stable operating system. As an interim measure, the MS-DOS systems were used as terminals to telnet into the Sparc and jobs where run on the Sparc. Two month later I installed the first version with Linux 99p6. It's now running 99p9.
Large databases are a place where the money is made.
So let's talk about money. As I saw it, MS-DOS is bad choice as a possible platform for a database clients. As I've written above I'm now rewriting the whole program, and I hope to finish this in December. Look at the Usenet group comp.os.linux.announce for my posting. But, I've expanded the parser generator to produce manual pages for each parser it produces.