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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: PICK, UniVerse, Unix and what-have you (info request)
Keywords: PICK UNIX
Message-ID: <1817@hulda.erbe.se>
Date: 30 Sep 90 18:47:53 GMT
References: <605@eds1.UUCP> <8505@aimed.UUCP>
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In a recent article nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) writes:

>When you move to a non native, like VMARK/UNIVERSE, there are naturally
>plenty of things that change. It is, after all, then just a guest O/S.
>That having been said, VMARK so far has caused me no grief, save certain
>UNIX restrictions (like files not being able to span devices). Again, if
>the PICK code is reasonably vanilla, it will have no trouble moving to
>a Non-native implementation.

We recently installed UniVerse on an Encore Multimax. A file can be up
to 2 (4?) GB in size, since the system supports virtual partitions.
Code was moved from another non-native system (Prime Information) as
well as a native system (ADDS) to the new system without any problems
at all. Performance was greatly increased (after all, no other Pick-like
system, native or non-native, has outperformed the UniVerse/Multimax
combination).

>No question. It is a wonderfull Database system, rugged, and reasonably
>full featured within its intended realm. Remember, PICK is not the answer
>to all things - It is targetted at data management for business, and is
>thus missing certain fundamentals - like decent communications. Thats
>what the PICK/UNIX combinations are meant to solve.

Ah, that was one of the reasons to move to UniVerse on the Multimax.
UniVerse/Net makes it possible to run Pick applications in a client/
server environment, just like any other /Net database.

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