Re: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

The old IBM System3 machines used 120 col. punch cards. And initially they had no HD's. Everything was done with cards and a reader/sorter. To compile a program you took the code you wrote, punched it into cards and then put it behind a stack of cards that was the compiler. The machine read the cards and generated another pile cards that was the compiled code. No matter how big the code you were compiling it took about 30 minutes to do a compile. All data was stored on cards - lots and lots of cards.

Ken

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:34 AM

> [snip]
> > 120 col. punch cards?
>
> You had a high-density model. Mine only had 80 cols, of which 72 were
usable for my goto-happy Fortran statements.
>
> SF
>
>
> >No hard drives?
> >
> >My $0.02 worth,
> >
> >Ken Janusz, CPIM
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L"
> ><ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:39 AM
> >
> >
> >> Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet
> >you remember RPT & RPF as
> >well!!
> >>
> >> Dick Goulet
> >> Senior Oracle DBA
> >> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:04 AM
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> >>
> >> > I used to use a SQL Module compiler. Not with
> >Oracle though.
> >> > It's rare for me to run into someone else who
> >likes that
> >> > approach. Actually, it's rare for me to
> >encounter someone
> >> > who's even heard of it...
> >>
> >> Jonathan, I've been around for a long time. I've
> >seen things like
> >> DataLens for Lotus123, SQL*Calc, Easy*SQL, then
> >there was an Oracle
> >> version of then popular DB2 tool, which looked
> >like an IBM 3874 terminal
> >on top
> >> of VT320, SQL*Graph does deserve a honorable
> >mention, then there was
> >PRO*Pascal,
> >> and a myriad of other exotic stuff that I cannot
> >remember now. I was
> >laughing when
> >> I saw "UNDO TABLESPACES" in 9i. What exactly is a
> >difference between a
> >specialized
> >> undo tablespace and a file that was just laying
> >around and couldn't be
> >touched and
> >> was named "Before Image file" or "BI file".
> >Logical names (another
> >concept that many
> >> youngsters are probably unfamiliar with) were
> >usually VAX$BI or ORACLE$BI.
> >> Unfortunately, discussions like that are not part
> >of OCP curriculum.
> >> The file is not really part of the database, you
> >can't create any objects
> >in it, it manages
> >> itself and it stores the old values of oracle
> >blocks, in case rollback is
> >needed. I could
> >> be talking about "BI" file or "UNDO TABLESPACE",
> >there is no difference
> >whatsoever.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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