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On 04/19/07 15:11, Dave Page wrote:
> Walter Vaughan wrote:
>> Raymond Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive.
>> Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment
>> had the same request. They wanted a database incorporated into a hard
>> disk drive, and that's what they got. An operating system and database
>> in one, on the hard drive. Damn good database, still in use all over the
>> world. IBM even distributes 2 versions today.
>
> That takes me back - hours of endless fun trying to get tape drives to
> work with native Advanced Pick - and it wasn't a great deal better on
> the 'alongside HP-UX' version. So much easier when Unidata came along
> and didn't try to be an OS as well as a DBMS.... Ahh, those were the
> days :-)
Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers!!!
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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