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From: eric@pyramid.pyramid.com (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres vs Sybase
Message-ID: <70862@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 20 May 89 04:18:17 GMT
References: <4306@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> <587@kylie.oz> <13656@ncoast.ORG> <4320@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: eric@pyramid.pyramid.com (Eric Bergan)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <4320@sybase.sybase.com> ben@calvin.sybase.com (ben ullrich) writes:
>In article <13656@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>
>>(There were
>>four available for Sybase, but that's because Sybase's native forms package
>>is bitmapped; all of these were character-oriented.)
>
>Just a minor clarification:  Sybase's ``native forms package'' is terminal
>independent:
> Thus, Sybase supports
>character-based front ends on, for example, Pyramid, with no bitmapped
>terminal support, because Pyramid doesn't make bitmapped terminals for
>its computers.

	Just one more minor clarification:

	Pyramid now sells a bitmapped X terminal, and will be supporting
X based frontends just as fast as the various vendors convert their
applications to X.

	( I know, this borders on a commercial, but just wanted to
set the record straight.)

							...!pyramid!eric
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					eric
					...!pyramid!eric