* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
@ 2018-04-20 1:24 Dennis Boone
2018-04-20 1:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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From: Dennis Boone @ 2018-04-20 1:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
Does anyone know if UToronto's MRS database system (from about 1979) has
survived? It was described in:
Robert Hudyma, John Kornatowski, Ivor Ladd. MRS: A microcomputer
database management system. Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGSMALL
symposium on Small systems and SIGMOD workshop on Small database
systems, pp 174-180.
Apparently it was distributed to over 50 unix sites. This is the
software which became the MISTRESS and later EMPRESS products.
De
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* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
2018-04-20 1:24 [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979 Dennis Boone
@ 2018-04-20 1:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-04-20 7:49 ` arnold
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From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2018-04-20 1:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Does anyone know if UToronto's MRS database system (from about 1979) has
> survived?
[...]
> Apparently it was distributed to over 50 unix sites. This is the
> software which became the MISTRESS and later EMPRESS products.
Memories of running Mistress/Empress under CTIX come flooding back ...
Back in the day (circa 1987) I recall Henry Spencer was going out with a
woman who worked at Rhodnius (what that the name? it's been a while) on
the commercial product. While Henry has vanished from the face of the
Earth (it seems), Geoff Collyer might recall who she was, or maybe have
pointers/links to others who worked on the code.
--lyndon
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* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
2018-04-20 1:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
@ 2018-04-20 7:49 ` arnold
2018-04-20 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-20 18:39 ` Nemo
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From: arnold @ 2018-04-20 7:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> While Henry has vanished from the face of the Earth (it seems),
He's still alive and well; at hspencer at utias-sfl.net if anyone
needs to find him. His zoo.utoronto.ca address is gone for good, though.
Arnold
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* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
2018-04-20 7:49 ` arnold
@ 2018-04-20 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-20 18:39 ` Nemo
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-04-20 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> He's still alive and well; at hspencer at utias-sfl.net if anyone needs to
> find him. His zoo.utoronto.ca address is gone for good, though.
So he's still at U Toronto, then? I met him once, when he was in Sydney
visiting his sister[*], and he was a thoroughly nice chap.
[*]
You knocked on the door, and were asked for a password (which to my
knowledge was never distributed!); I responded with "SunOS-ish (adj):
requiring 32-bit bug numbers" and was granted admittance :-)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
2018-04-20 7:49 ` arnold
2018-04-20 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2018-04-20 18:39 ` Nemo
2018-04-20 18:42 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Nemo @ 2018-04-20 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 20/04/2018, arnold at skeeve.com <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
>> While Henry has vanished from the face of the Earth (it seems),
>
> He's still alive and well; at hspencer at utias-sfl.net if anyone
> needs to find him. His zoo.utoronto.ca address is gone for good, though.
(Sigh) I regret never going over to meet him when I was a grad
student at Toronto. Zoo was the next building over. I knew of him
but it never happened.
N.
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* [TUHS] MRS database software ca. 1979
2018-04-20 18:39 ` Nemo
@ 2018-04-20 18:42 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2018-04-20 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 02:39:53PM -0400, Nemo wrote:
> On 20/04/2018, arnold at skeeve.com <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> > Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> While Henry has vanished from the face of the Earth (it seems),
> >
> > He's still alive and well; at hspencer at utias-sfl.net if anyone
> > needs to find him. His zoo.utoronto.ca address is gone for good, though.
What's he up to?
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