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In article <1748@rwja.umdnj.edu> holowczk@rwja.umdnj.edu (Richard Holowczak) writes:
>orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
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>[Tale of Oracle install deleted]
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>>Has anyone successfully installed this version of Oracle with OS/2 2.0?
>
>>How?
>
>>[Or does anyone have a developer's copy of Oracle that works with OS/2
>>for sale real cheap?]
>
>>Thanks for advice,
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> In an OS/2 article in BYTE magazine, Oracle was one
> application which was said to be incompatible with OS/2 2.0.
> It seem the Oracle PME is not compatible with OS/2 2.0 XMS.
> I have not tried it myself having read the article first.
>
> Oracle has an OS/2 edition but it is currently only supported
> by OS/2 1.x.
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>
As I mentioned to Orville, SQLPME ( Oracle's protected mode executive for DOS ) needs to have a VCPI compliant memory manager (if any) installed. However the
DOS box of OS/2 provides DPMI compliant memory so the PME will not work.
However OS/2 2.0 is COMPLETELY supported. You need the 6.0.34.2.1 database