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From: moiram@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Moira Mallison)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Questions on Ingres
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Date: 10 Jan 90 18:40:13 GMT
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In article <717@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes:
>joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang) writes:
>>Can version 6.0 work with UNIX?
>
>Yes.

While Ingres Corp may claim that "Ingres is Ingres is Ingres", nobody
claims "Unix is Unix is Unix".  The real answer to Joe's question is
"it depends".  It works on some forms of Unix (eg Sun OS), will 
work (but not currently a production release) on other forms (eg Ultrix),
and will never work on some other versions (eg 4.3 BSD) because
of design incompatibilities.  Version 6.0 requires the kernel to be
configured with shared memory, and 4.3BSD doesn't have that capability.

Moira Mallison
Tektronix, Inc.