Re: Oracle History??

Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<3ddcbaf5$0$12759$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> 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.
>

I always assumed that had something to do with the editor on PDP/VMS, called EDT.
>
> > 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 thought some of the third party tools were a bigger relief.

jg

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