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Something like Oracle forms with a custom clinet application talking to a database server.


Yeah - kind of, but Oracle forms originally didn’t even have a graphical client - that’s probably why Powerbuilder and Visual Basic dominated the early 90s. Also, Oracle was still fighting it out with Sybase in the mini computer dbms space.


Oracle forms 2.3 & 3 where graphical terminal apps, starting forms 4.0 it also included windows (and X) clients.




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