Re: Oracle History??

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:32:41 +0100, Sybrand Bakker said (and I quote):

> 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).

And first it was called AFI, for a short period with 5.0 beta. As in Advanced Friendly Interface. You can still see the remnants of that today, when you issue the SQL*Plus SAVE command: it stores the buffer in a file with the name "afiedt.buf", which was it's name in AFI as well.

> The only reportwriter available at that time was the RPT/RPF pair,
> which was obsoleted with Oracle 7

But still available well into 7.2.

> your source. Forms 3.0 was really a big relief.

Yes!!!!

>
> 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.

Nope. First PC version was 4.1.4, DOS, 640K of memory. Around 1983-84. V5 was quite advanced, it actually could use extended memory!!!

> 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.
>

True. Ingres made a huge hoopla about that. Until they realised that it was crazy to argue about memory size! :D

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