Re: Oracle Server H/W Configuration

In article <slrn73o5f4.e3.joel-garry_at_home.com>,   joel-garry_at_nospam.home.com wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:01:18 +0200, Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:
> >Connor McDonald wrote in message <363847C9.5983_at_bhp.com.au>...
> >
> >>If its any consolation, our very first Oracle db was about 6G with 20
> >>users, and ran very happily on an old Sun Sparc 20 with no dramas (128M
> >>RAM, 12x1G disks, 3 controllers)...Ahhh the good ol' days
> >
> >I remember running my fist "database". A 4MB dBASE 3+ database on a 20MB
> >8086 Novell file server.... :-)
>
> I remember running my first "database." A bastardized DMS500 on a 20M
> 11/34 RSTS machine with 256K memory... :-)
>
> And we loved it!
>
> >
> >
> >regards,
> >Billy
> >
> >
>
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To quote Dilbert's friend, Wally, "When I wrote my first database, we could only use ones and zeros -- and half-way through the project they cut the budget for ones!"

And when I wrote my first database app, we could only use smoke and mirrors, and half-way through the project they cut the budget for mirrors.

(Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer.) --
Ed Stevens

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