Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 8 Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:38:29 -0800 Organization: EXE Message-ID: <3E8DED45.87C0BBAE@exxesolutions.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@splish28.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 19 Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:182055 X-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:39:17 MST (news.easynews.com) Ram Kalapatapu wrote: > Hi, > I have been running oracle 8 for linux on my home PC for a few years. > Recently, I had to reinstall my OS and I had saved only my database. I went > to oracle's website and could only find 8i and 9i versions of the software. > Is there someplace where 8 is archived for download? > > The machine is a pentium 100 with 96mb RAM. So I cannot think of upgrading > to 8i or 9i. Besides I use oracle only for learning and am happy with 8 and > don't care much for the features in the newer versions. > > Thanks. 8.0 is not available and your argument for not upgrading unreasonable. I routinely run 8.1.7 on a machine with 64MB RAM. Daniel Morgan