Rim is a descendent of the Boeing Computer ServicesBoeing program
of the same name that was developed in 1978 as part of the IPAD project
(NASA contract NAS1-14700)NASA.
That program was brought
to the University of Washington and further developed
as UWRIMUWRIM, a CDC Cyber program.
The present program has been rewritten in completely portable
fortran-77 code. The new code includes new functionality
and a more ``SQL-like'' command language.
Some capabilities of UWRIM are no longer supported.