Re: Oracle History??

Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<l27mtucbk0llv6u2efi0kdjucs4kb6r7lr_at_4ax.com>...
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:49:40 +1100, "Howard J. Rogers"
> <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> >news:BA0051A2.2BD0%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
> >> in article ZIDC9.80199$g9.225916_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com, Howard J. Rogers
> at
> >> howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au wrote on 11/19/02 8:04 PM:
> >>
> >> > Turns out it was first available in 1985. God knows what version that
> would
> >> > have been!!
> >>
> >> 6.2 on VMS
> >>
> >
> >Ah. On a proper operating system, huh?
> >
> >Thanks for the info.
> >Regards
> >HJR
> >
>
> 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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For the record rpt was still delivered up to an including version 7.2.  We hung on to the binary and were still using rpt reports against version 8.0.5 and I believe 8.1.7 but finally convinced development to rewrite the reports into Oracle Reports when we migrated platforms. Sorry we cannot get a copy of 7.2 to run those reports; you'll have to rewrite them.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 10:24:34 CST