Re: PI Open is going away

2004-04-15 Thread Lance J. Andersen
This is indeed an end of an era for those of us who worked on the development/sustaining and support of PI, PI Open/PI+ :-( Clifton Oliver wrote: As one of the engineers of the original Prime INFORMATION, I am curious how many people on the list are still using PI Open. Anyone care to sound o

Re: PI Open is going away

2004-04-16 Thread Lance J. Andersen
Martin, I did the same recently. Not only did i retire my PI/Open docs but all of my old PI material dating back to my days prior to working at Prime when I was at Standard Data Systems, one of the original PI dealers . However the memories will always be with me... -Lance Martin Phill

Re: PI Open is going away

2004-04-16 Thread Lance J. Andersen
Like when PI 5.4 was supposed to come out with Relational features and then we backed them out of the release? Results wrote: PI/Open-ers, I'd like to write a 'memorial' article for Database Trends acknowledging the PI and Prime contributions to the community as a whole. Would a few of yo

Re: PI Open is going away

2004-04-17 Thread Lance J. Andersen
I think 3 lines of comments is generous ;-) When I went through that lovely set of code to document the PI error messages I was wishing i could find the design spec, but I believe the spec matched the number of comments in the Kernel (i.e. it did not exist). Clifton Oliver wrote: That wou

Re: Proc or Para

2004-02-05 Thread Lance J. Andersen
And if it was not for Glen and Steve Buck who helped push for this inclusion, PI might never have had this as part of the core product. It did come to be a key piece of the product when PI+, PI/Open hit the market as we encountered a lot of old MD, PICK shops that we targeted to convert. Wh