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- From: Dominic Dunlop <uunet!sphinx.co.uk!domo>
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- Does anybody out there know if the venerable C-ISAM interface has been
- adopted, or is about to be adopted, by any public standards body (ANSI,
- ISO, IEEE, UL... you name it), or is specified as a requirement by any
- purchasing agency (NIST, CCTA, NASA...). (Yes, I know that purchasing
- agency is a loose term: I mean the kind of outfit which draws up specs
- which some large purchaser then makes binding on their suppliers.) As far
- as I'm aware, the current state of play is that C-ISAM has beached in the
- X/Open Portability Guide, but no public body has tried to pick it up from
- there. Oh yes. Might C-ISAM pop up in SVID 4? I seem to recall Informix
- (or RDS, as they were then) claiming to have sold technology to AT&T for a
- juicy sum a few years back, but have seen no obvious fruits. Clues or
- pointers, anyone?
-
- If your reply is as speculative as this enquiry, you might drop me mail.
- If, on the other hand, it's good solid dope, by all means post it straight
- away. I'll summarise to the net in any event.
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- Dominic Dunlop
- The Standard Answer Ltd., using Sphinx' facilities (for which much thanks)
- domo@sphinx.co.uk
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- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 53
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