[Info-ingres] What is like the Ingres that I remember?

metalworker.mike at gmail.com metalworker.mike at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 23:27:18 UTC 2015


  Back in the later 80's I worked in computers.  This was back in the halcyon days when kids were hired right out of high school to do major programming.  I got out of programming, but I remember a large system that I wrote using, believe it or don't, PC-Ingres.  Part of the system was run on Vaxen and it was primarily based on PCs (PC-ATs, if I remember correctly) and it was quite complex.  Dozens and dozens of hand-coded screens (not just QBF stuff) and many many reports and manual processes run from batch files.
  Anyway, although I haven't worked in computers for over 25 years, I got it into my head recently that I'd like to write a CMMS for my actual real job.  I'm curious if anyone knows of a system available today (hopefully free!) which is similar to what I remember.  A screen editor, a report editor.. maybe they're all like that.  I wouldn't know - I haven't touched an RDB since that job almost 30 years ago.

  Any thoughts?
Mike



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