On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
>
> > non-trivial chore, whereas the MySQL driver, for example, works as soon as
> > you file it in - even, I imagine, on an Acorn ;).

> If it expects a local implementation of MySQL, then I fear not. If it
> works to another machine via reasonably simple socket calls then it
> might be plausible, even exciting to some people.

The latter.