Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:
>> I think the real reason Oracle and others practically re-wrote
>> their own VM-system and filesystems is that at the time it was
>> important for them to run under Windows98; where it was rather
>> easy to write better filesystems than your customer's OS was
>> bundled with.
>
> Windows98? No, those decisions predate any thought of running Oracle
> on Windows, probably by decades. But I think the thought process was
> about as above whenever they did make it; they were running on some
> pretty stupid OSes way back when.
Windows XP?
****runs****
>
> regards, tom lane
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