Re: Oracle History??

Looks perfect, Mark. Thanks so much.

I'd thank Richard, too, of course, but the signal to noise (ie, Oracle to Bowie) ratio was too high to make much sense of it all. ;-)

Regards
HJR "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:BA00777C.2C1C%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
>
> http://www.osborne.com/products/0072192798/0072192798_ch01.pdf
>
> I think Ken Jacobs at least reviewed this (I'll check tomorrow)
>
>
> in article F1GC9.80274$g9.226215_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com, Richard Foote at
> richard.foote_at_bigpond.com wrote on 11/19/02 11:49 PM:
>
> > Hi Howard,
> >
> > I got this from old notes and stuff I've kept:
> >
> > 1978: Oracle 1
> > - Ran on PDP-11 under RSX, 128K memory
> > - Written in assembly language
> > - Separate Oracle code and user code due to memory limitations of RSX
> > - David Bowie toured Australia for the first time
> >
> > 1980: Oracle 2
> > - Ran on VAX/VMS in compatibility mode
> > - Written in PDP-11 assembly language
> > - David Bowie made No 1 with Ashes To Ashes single
> >
> > 1982: Oracle 3
> > - Written in C
> > - Retained split architecture
> > - Introduced transactions
> > - David Bowie starred in the BBC production of Baal
> >
> > 1984: Oracle 4
> > - Introduced read consistency
> > - Ported to many platforms
> > - First interoperability between PC and Server
> > - David Bowie release the "Tonight" album. No 1 in England.
> >
> > 1986: Oracle 5
> > - True client-server
> > - VAX cluster support
> > - Distributed queries
> > - David Bowie produced Iggy Pop's "Blab Blah Blah" album
> >
> > 1989: Oracle 6
> > - OLTP performance enhancements
> > - Online backup and recovery
> > - Row level locking
> > - PL/SQL procedures
> > - Parallel server
> > - David Bowie fronted Tin Machine (unfortunately)
> >
> > 1993: Oracle 7
> > - Shared SQL
> > - Data Warehousing
> > - Parallel everything
> > - Advanced Replication
> > - David Bowie release "Black Tie/White Noise" to rave reviews
> >
> > 1997: Oracle 8
> > - Object-relational database
> > - Partitioning
> > - David Bowie released "Earthling"
> >
> > Hope it's of some use.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Richard
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:D9AC9.80088$g9.225516_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> >> Does anyone know of a set of documentation outlining when features
first
> >> appeared in various Oracle versions? For example, I believe that
Parallel
> >> Server first made an appearance in version 5 in 1989. But I've only got
a
> >> rather dodgy source for that belief, and I'd like the donkey's
doo-dah's
> >> last word in authorative truth on the matter. Just as an example.
> >>
> >> Is there such a document ('cos I can't find it if so)?
> >>
> >> Personal reminiscences are appreciated, but not quite the definitive
> > source
> >> I was after!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> HJR
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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