Acornell.2648 net.oa utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!vax135!cornell!eaf Wed Mar 24 08:31:24 1982 OA with WP, Inf. Ret., Relat. DBMS, C/PASCAL I'm interested in constructing an integrated system for word processing, relational DBM, and information retrieval of documents and mail. I'd like to use C and PASCAL but need to find good WP and DBMS software under UNIX or VMS/EUNICE. 1) Has anyone done comparisons among the various PASCAL's that run on UNIX, as to code size or execution time on standard benchmark programs? Is there a version of the Oregon Software compiler for UNIX and is it good? 2) Are there any user-friendly packages for word processing that run on standard CRT types of terminals and yet let you see what you have as you go along (i.e. don't use embedded codes like NROFF). 3) Does anyone have experience with relational DBMS under UNIX? I've been using INGRES and it is at least an order of magnitude too slow. ORACLE looks good on paper (except for the price) but I'd like user comments. Other packages like MISTRES, SEQUITAR aren't very complete, but if people have had good experiences that would be good to know. 4) Does anyone have clustering routines or other packages that relate to information retrieval applications? Thank you for the information! Ed Fox (decvax!vax135!cornell!eaf or eaf.cornell@udel) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.