Re: Oracle History??

Nuno, you just resolved one of Life's Little Mysteries for me (the origin of afiedt.buf). Now we can all get some sleep!

Martin

Nuno Souto wrote:

>Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:32:41 +0100, Sybrand Bakker said (and I quote):
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>>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).
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>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.
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>>The only reportwriter available at that time was the RPT/RPF pair,
>>which was obsoleted with Oracle 7
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>But still available well into 7.2.
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>>your source. Forms 3.0 was really a big relief.
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>Yes!!!!
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>>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.
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>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!!!
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>>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.
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>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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Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 18:43:42 CST