Re: Informix

Ace and Perform was part of a product called Informix 3.30 from RDS. Informix 3.30 made direct access to database files and included: - Ace report generator (this is the reason because ace compiler command of informix sql is called sace). QUEL based. - Perform screen generator - Informer query language, QUEL based. - Enter1 and Enter2 screen generator to direct entry to tables. - A menu program that comes witj sources called dbmenu (then sysmenus in isql and source closed). - DBBUILD data description language to describe and change database tables (this was very good because we described it and a command made the syncronizations. Much better then hand made alter tables). - ALL2 library to access to the database with C S'rgio >Jonathan, I think you make a lot of sense with your version of things. >One thing I can confirm is that Turbo was launched in 1987, after all >that was why I joined the company, and I4GL was about 1 year before >that. R4GL (I4GL RDS) came out in late 1988. Again, I remember it well >as I had it delivered to me for an exhibition. And I think that Online >4 was either 1989 or 1990, probably the latter. I seem to remember >talking to you when we were looking for developers to write applications >to launch Online and you developed a sample database and application. >I also believe that ACE and Perform were originally products for the >reporting and data entry of C-ISAM files, which were then grouped with >other bits to produce a product called Informa, which later became >Informix. But that was way before my time. Although I have grey hair, >I don't go back that far. > >Regards > >Malcolm > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] >On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler >Sent: 20 April 2004 06:20 >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: Informix > > >chavankoya189@hotmail.com (Chavan Koya) wrote: > > >>>>About Informix --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix >>>> >>>> > >The Wiki page claims that Informix used Ingres as a code base. I'm >pretty darned sure I've never seen any Ingres code in any of the >Informix products. Would anyone be aware of such code in Informix? > >I also thought that the first product from RDS was likely to be >C-ISAM, and that Marathon (which was, I thought, a code name for the >product that was later named Informix) was built on top of C-ISAM. > >I see that the Informix Handbook site has a release date of 1984 for >I4GL too - that, I'm 99% sure, is two years early. When I joined >Sphinx in the UK in June 1986, we just started with ISQL 2.00 and I4GL >1.00 (running under Zeus on Zilog Z8000 boxes, and later on a AT&T >3B2/400 - a mighty powerhouse of a machine), with ISQL 1.10 also >available as the prior version. ISQL 2.00 was followed by ISQL 2.10 >(I4GL 1.10) and then ISQL 2.10.03 (I4GL 1.10.03 - which introduced the >p-code system). Turbo was also released about then. One reason for >the version number .03 was to avoid renumbering the software as ISQL >3.x since that would have caused confusion with the pre-SQL version of >Informix 3.30, which was still too recent for comfort. That was why >the unified version numbering jumped to version 4.00 - to avoid that >confusion. (I note that ESQL/C for ISQL 2.x had a 3.x version number.) > >Does anybody want to correct this version of history? > >OK - calling a 3B2/400 a powerhouse is a little far-fetched, but the >rest? > > > sending to informix-list