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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:49:14 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2102180746510.70858@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e11f295f-a4db-ae4f-0da6-85b6d52be7ad@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:

> Then there's the fact that some consider file systems to be a big DB 
> that is mounted.  }:-)

It is; it's a hierarchical DB (and is still used as such).

-- Dave, who remembers the hierarchical/relational DB wars

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-17 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17  1:08 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-17  1:16 ` Will Senn
2021-02-17  1:43   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17  2:26     ` Will Senn
2021-02-17  4:08       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17 10:14         ` John Gilmore
2021-02-17 14:52           ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-17 23:58           ` Dan Cross
2021-02-17 20:49         ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-02-22  5:57       ` Tomasz Rola
2021-02-17  3:29   ` John Cowan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-18 20:20 Brian Walden
2021-02-18 20:41 ` Anthony Martin
2021-02-16 20:33 Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:15   ` Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:06 ` Dennis Boone

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