Re: Oracle History??

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:49:40 +1100, "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

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>"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
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>> in article ZIDC9.80199$g9.225916_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com, Howard J. Rogers
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>> howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au wrote on 11/19/02 8:04 PM:
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>> > Turns out it was first available in 1985. God knows what version that
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>> > have been!!
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>> 6.2 on VMS
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>Ah. On a proper operating system, huh?
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>Thanks for the info.
>Regards
>HJR
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Have been running OPS on VMS with Oracle 6.0 so it must have been somewhat earlier, and I also don't remember a 6.2 version. For VMS the last 6.x was 6.0.33

Just to add a little bit
sql*plus was introduced with Oracle 5 as the successor of UFI (which was an acronym for User Friendly Interface, and was well -eh- *very* user *un*friendly).
The only reportwriter available at that time was the RPT/RPF pair, which was obsoleted with Oracle 7
Also I have been working with Forms 2.0 and Forms 2.3, which contained very rudimentary procedural capabilities, as an IF was implemented as a #exemacro case construct, and you have to write your in an ordinary editor, so without any syntax checking, and you had to spend many hours for hunting missing semicolons, after IAG refused to compile your source. Forms 3.0 was really a big relief.

I also remember the first PC version of Oracle (5.x), which came on 32 floppies, many of them low density, and Forms, which came on an additional 16 floppies.
Oracle at that time boasted to have got past the 640k barrier, but competitors stated, that implied they simply were incapable of getting Oracle into 640k.

Regards

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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