Describing databases and external connectivity as rubbish does provide a clue to the poor performance of so many applications. Aren't they integral to the application?

Rebuilds target from over 140 source files, around 90,000 lines of C and C++ with 160 header files, in less than a minute and a half. Too fast really, it was nice to get a 5 minute break.

Set up W8 on 6 year old machine with 1.5GB RAM. It runs as well as XP. Spent 20 minutes to find system is not so different and I expect to give 5 minutes to upgraded users with a hundred or so files on the desktop and have problems finding their way to work. W8 works fine and is a decided improvement on the common desktop clutter.

It is unlikely that this point was missed, the suspicion has to be that the constraints were from the printed format, the language and the fact that short numbers are more memorable and easier to repeat.

The spec is " to hold the reservation token (001 to 999) on a per-train basis", reservations per train, not tickets per country if read correctly.

I travel a lot, 999 is more than enough, block the thousandth and solve the problem.

How do you get 1000 people sitting on a train?

Has the textbox a multiline option?