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From: nbladt@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Newsgroups: sub.databases,comp.databases
Subject: Re: 4GL's : INGRES Windows 4GL
Keywords: INGRES
Message-ID: <1132@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>
Date: 19 Nov 90 09:02:26 GMT
References: <3825@uniol.UUCP> <1990Nov15.091534.13377@ctl.co.nz> <1990Nov15.194011.2135@ifi.uio.no>
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tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) writes:


>In article <1990Nov15.091534.13377@ctl.co.nz>, mcintoshc@ctl.co.nz writes:
>> INGRES WINDOWS-4GL should be a good starting point - it has the best GUI I've
[ Text about it deleted ]

>Yes. It looks good, but I've only seen it demonstrated on SUN-4. 
True, it is looking good (on pictures). See later on.

>Can anyone tell me if INGRES Windows 4GL are ported to other 
>hardware-platforms such as Decstation? If not, have anyone heard of a release
>date ?
I have seen it on VAXstations (with VMS :-( and DECWIndows), of course.
It ran very SLOOOOOWLY. Even the created .EXE programs ran slowly.
After the resources were created (on the fly ?!) by reading
the .EXE file they were in memory and they ran faster, of course. So,
using one pop-up (etc.) just once is not a very good idea.

>A rumour:  INGRES Windows 4GL will not be ported to the SUN-3 platform.
>Can someone confirm this rumour?
No idea.

>There must be a lot of sites out there still running SUN-3's who want this
>product, or ?
I think, the sales of this went down much after the SUN-4 arrived, right ?

Norbert.
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