Return-Path: Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (root@localhost) by orafaq.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAHEM6L21205 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:22:06 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.212 Received: from www3.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-212.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.212]) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAHEM6c21199 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:22:06 -0600 Received: (from root@localhost) by www3.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hAHBASj18387 for oracle-l@orafaq.net; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:10:28 -0800 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005D6EE8; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:14:24 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:14:24 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Carel-Jan Engel" Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Carel-Jan Engel" Subject: Re: Re[2]: var source_data varchar2(12) Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mladen, we must have started in the same era. You're describing the environment I started with, however, our disk was 10MB. So you remember SQL*Forms 1.3 (IAC/IAG/IAP) and HLI as well? > Carel, I know that. That was my first oracle version. I installed V4 on an > IBM > PC/XT with WD 20MB hard drive and two 5.25 floppy drives which could > each hold 360k of information. Yes, you read it correctly. It was 20 MB > hard drive, not 20 GB. OS was the unforgettable DOS 3.0 and the graphic > card was called "Hercules". I don't know why was it called "graphic card" > because it didn't have any graphic. The first real graphic was CGA and > then > EGA, VGA, XGA on PS/2 (IBM PS/2, not Playstation 2) and SVGA. > > On 2003.11.16 21:04, Carel-Jan Engel wrote: >> Hi Mladen, >> >> At 06:19 12-11-03 -0800, you wrote: >>> SQL*Plus has a ghastly and disgusting user interface, >>> implemented without "readline" or equivalent, which would give a >>> command >>> history. >>> Littering the system with those @#$%! afiedt.buf files is bad enough >>> but >>> line >>> editting commands are an indicator of how much oracle cares for the >>> user >>> interface. >> >>> and sqlplus is definitely not something that I'd like presenting to my >>> users. >> >> >> Do you know how SQL*Plus was called during Oracle V4? (And maybe >> earlier, >> but this is as far as my history with Oracle goes) >> >> They called it UFI, which means User Friendly Interface! >> >> Regards, Carel-Jan >> >> -- There will allways be another 10 last bugs -- >> >>-- >> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net >>-- >> Author: Carel-Jan Engel >> INET: cjpengel.dbalert@xs4all.nl >> >> Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com >> San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >> to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >> the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >> (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >> also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Mladen Gogala > INET: mgogala@adelphia.net > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Carel-Jan Engel INET: cjpengel.dbalert@xs4all.nl Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).