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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...
Date: Fri,  9 Feb 2001 18:57:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00fc01c092c1$ca62f440$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010208062037.E5988199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu>

> - ye olde codger (what ever happened to VSAM?)

it was alive and well in 1994 on solaris.  that was one ghastly project.

i can remember asking myself, 'but why would you ever want one'?.
setting them up is a major exercise.

i remember some IBM types at basser once in the early '80s.  they
saw piers lauder type:

    ring <someone>

and in under a second the 11/780 had grep'd out the line containing <someone>
from a text file.  the IBM guys were aghast: what is that DBMS? etc etc etc...

we, of course, were laughing ourselves sick.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-09 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-08  6:20 geoff
2001-02-08  7:08 ` Mike Haertel
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09 17:57 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-02-09 18:02 ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-09  6:33 Jonathan Sergent
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09  4:24 kim kubik
2001-02-08 14:07 nemo
2001-02-08  1:47 tad
2001-02-08  1:31 rob pike
2001-02-08 21:26 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-02-09  7:52   ` Scott Schwartz
2001-02-08  1:24 anothy
2001-02-08  1:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-08  5:38 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-06 21:04 [9fans] HOW TO INSTALL? Russ Cox
2001-02-07 23:41 ` [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I Jim Choate

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