Robert Schieck wrote:

> In article <004c01c00135$88c6ac70$0401a8c0@putte2k>, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > Ann Harrison wrote:
> > > Death to MPE/XL
> >
> > Since this is a platform I've never even heard about, is it used anymore
> > and/or supported by IB, or could we start to remove the "mpexl" conditional
> > code?
>

> MPE/XL was a custom port done for Cognos and only sold by cognos. I had the
> interesting experience of working on one of these suckers up in Canada. It
> was an interesting experience.

Cognos released interbase under the name Starbase, its where I got into this
interbase thing, MPE/XL was the version up from MPE (which was a horror). At
least in MPE/XL you had some unix emulation and more that a 16k stack.

Mark