scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) (12/12/87)
Recently we received the Sun User Group software tape (wait a minute, isn't this unix-pc.general? Bear with me...) at work, and much to my surprise the UCB release of ingres is on it, marked to be public domain code. Well! I could use a dbms on my 7300, and even had some exposure to a project that ported university ingres to an Altos running Xenix 7, an Onyx Z-8000 running System III, and a PDP-11/44 running UNIX 7 and System III. Thus I'm reasonably sure it can be done -- but I also know it takes a lot of work. Have any of you ever attempted this? Have you seen literature saying other have done generic system V ports of university ingres? For the curious: the full package, source and docs, is about 2.3Mb before you compile anything. Tarred and compressed it's about .95Mb, so don't ask me to mail it to you in pieces (or on floppies, or whatever). If droves and droves of people think it's useful I could send a copy to Rich $alz, and maybe he could post it to comp.sources. With a 20Mb disk, it's not going to stay online here for long. If you're really hot for a copy, it comes from the Sun User Group on a QIC-11 cartridge, cost there is $100.00. -- >>> Steve Simmons, Inland Sea Software, Ltd. ihnp4!itivax!lokkur!scs <<< >>> 9353 Hidden Lake, Dexter, MI. 48130 313-426-8981 <<< >>> "It's my computer and I'll snub who I want to." <<<