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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...
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Date: Fri,  9 Feb 2001 18:57:38 +0100
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> - 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.