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From: robinson@boone.med.unc.edu (Gerard A. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: is there a PC Ingres ?
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Date: 15 Jun 89 23:43:36 GMT
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Yes, there is INGRES/PC.  Its a fairly complete port of RTI's product
line to the PC.  Memory has been a problem in the past, but the most
recent version (that we have :-) /08 automatically will use 128K of
extended memory.  Applications that we've built on the Sun's and VAX's
have been fairly easily ported to a PC.  Access to db's on our Sun
server is available through an async connection, so that the user
interface (front-end/client) can reside on a PC and work against the
database server (backend).  This even works with the PC on the end of
TCP/IP terminal server telnet'd into a Sun.  I don't know that 
it works with Windows (I didn't read *ALL* the PC docs since it does
work much the same as our big machine versions), but you may run into
some memory limitations with that configuration (based upon local vs.
remote data manager, size of table/form etc.).

Gerard Robinson
(I'm totally irresponsible, so don't expect me to even claim these words
:-)