68K ODBC Bridge

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Year: 1996

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What is 68K ODBC Bridge?

The 68K ODBC Bridge is a PowerPC-ODBC driver that makes it possible to use existing 68K drivers with a native PowerPC ODBC application.

Apple and Visigenic have managed to create two completely incompatible ODBC architectures on the Macintosh. PowerPC applications can't use 68K drivers, and 68K applications can't use PowerPC drivers.  I don't really understand why it was done this way, even Microsoft managed to be slightly more compatible between the 16- and 32- bit architectures on the Windows side.

There are currently many more ODBC drivers available for the 68K architecture. There is for example no PowerPC ODBC driver available for such a major database as Informix. There are, however, several PowerPC ODBC client applications available or on their way, e.g Tango, PowerBuilder 5, Oracle PowerObjects 2.0 and others.

Davidsson, Björn. (1996). Read Me - 68K ODBC Bridge. Electronic Document.


Download 68K ODBC Bridge for Mac

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Architecture


68K + PPC (FAT)




Compatibility notes


Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II




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