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From: neighorn@nosun.UUCP ( SE Sun/PDX)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Relational Databases for Microport Unix V/386 3.0e
Message-ID: <316@nosun.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 18:00:36 GMT
References: <763@radig.UUCP> <313@nosun.UUCP> <13794@ncoast.ORG>
Reply-To: neighorn@nosun.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn - SE Sun/PDX)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Portland, Or.
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In article <13794@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

:No, it wasn't; it was Accell 1.3 running over Unify 4.0.  (Accell is a user
:interface; Unify is the DBMS which Accell 1.x interfaces to.)

Drat. I mixed up the version numbers again. Thanks for pointing out the
error - it might make a difference to someone trying to order the
product!

:Accell 1.3 had lots of bizarre problems on our 386 system.  However, at
:least some of them are the result of the 386 OS ([non-SCO] Xenix 5.2/386)
:in question having a broken C compiler and broken malloc.  We just -finally-
:got Accell 1.4; it's a MAJOR improvement.

That's good to hear. And it only took well over a year to get these
fixes.

:Fixed in 1.4, at least on Altos System V and Interactive 386/ix.  (The SCO
:version got errors accessing shared memory on our system; we haven't yet
:been able to upgrade to a version that supports a true 386 ABI, for various
:reasons.)  Also look for Unify 2000 and Accell/SQL soon (but don't buy
:it yet; *any* product is unusable in Version 1.0!).

Thanks for the information. I'll pass it along to the
probably-still-poor medical school. :-)

:++Brandon (a consultant who happens to think Accell is the greatest thing
:since sliced bread)

As long as the bread is the latest version. Moldy bread tastes terrible
and does bad things to one's digestive tract.
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