Microdata, MDIS, NIS, NPS to NEC Software Solutions… Reality, MultiValue heritage… that’s had many decades of enhancements The forerunner of Reality was called the General Information Management System – GIM and was designed by Don Nelson and Richard “Dick” Pick for the TRW company. It was delivered to the US Army in the mid 1960’s for logistics field support for the … Continue reading “History of Pick Reality”
Reality Host Platforms As Reality is built from a single source set all application level features are available across all supported host platforms. As Reality is in part a virtual operating system in its own right only the following can be supported and using other configurations could breach your contract to use Reality. SPARC/Solaris from Sun Oracle … for … Continue reading “Reality Host Platforms”
Reality, a MultiValue database, application development and operating environment It is the database and operating environment of choice for a wide range of organisations and businesses, from small enterprises to large 24×7 mission critical environments, returning great value and offering exceptional levels of resilience. From its first commercial delivery back in December 1973 into the … Continue reading “ABOUT US”
CentOS 5 Is No longer Supported Due to library incompatibility changes CentOS 5 can no longer be supported by Reality. Although CentOS 5 is supported until Mar 31, 2017 Version 6 has been released since 2011, with Version 7 released in 2014. Back to articles
CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails with 'No history file tool available for a unknown' – Updated Dec 10, 2015 Note: Due to library incompatibility changes CentOS 5 can no longer be supported by Reality… … although CentOS 5 is supported until Mar 31, 2017 Version 6 has been released since 2011, with … Continue reading “CentOS 5.11 Reality Install Fails”
V14.0 doesn't seem to load on Windows 7 or Server 2008 – Updated This can be recovered either by using V14.2, or by manually installing V14.0 as described in the FAQ. Manually installing Reality V14.0 on a new Windows Vista, 7 or Windows Server 2008 system. In the root of the CD double click vcredist_x86.exe … Continue reading “V14.0 doesn’t seem to load on Windows 7 or Server 2008 – Updated”
How to access & install Reality from the delivery ISO image There are utilities which can access an ISO file as a disk drive for both Windows and UNIX. On Windows: There are utilities available which can mount an ISO file as a disk drive which can then be used as one would a CD … Continue reading “How to access & install Reality from the delivery ISO image”
