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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: Ingres User's Association Meeting
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Date: 8 May 89 15:42:19 GMT
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From article <509@daitc.daitc.mil>, by jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger):
< In article <3082@tank.uchicago.edu>, cs_bob@gsbacd writes:
<>As far as I'm concerned, if the back end doesn't run on the machine, 
<>Ingres doesn't run on the machine. Ingres is supposedly an RDBMS. If
<>they can't get you the database engine, I think it's fair to say that
<>they can't give you an RDBMS.

< Have you heard the phrase "the network is the computer"?  What do you
< think it means?  The machine, in this case, consists of a vax, a
< network, and one other processor from {sequent, sun, mips, pyramid, .
< .. .} INGRES runs on the machine.  One configuration of the machine is
< to hang terminals off the vax, and disks off the other processor.  RTI
< has said they will support this.

That helps a lot if your only machine or machines are BSD machines,
doesn't it?

Paul DuBois
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