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- From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
- Subject: Re: ObjectStore OODBMS to be in NeXTstep in 1993!
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <1992Jul29.043911.5426@redbrick.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:22:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.043911.5426@redbrick.com> jfr@redbrick.com (Jon Rosen)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Jul22.155249.556@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- overlord@leland.stanford.edu (Marcos Polanco) writes:
- >> In general, I think the future
- > >holds the canning of the file system for a full-on database, so NeXT may
- > >just be (again) ahead of their time. Gotta go!
- >
- > Not! :-) The PICK operating system as well as the IBM System 38
- > operating systems are both based on database structures rather
- > than file systems. The S/38's DBMS is now used in the AS/400
- > and is better known as SQL/400. NeXT may be ahead of the mainstream
- > but they are clearly, in this case, relative latecomers.
- >
- > Jon Rosen
-
- Well, there are databases and there are databases. Pick et al, if memory
- serves me, are hierarchical databases, or at most relational. An
- Object-Oriented database file system is a very different creature, and NeXT
- would certainly be the first, though they are unlikely to be the only. I'm
- sure someone who know Pick better will set me right if I'm mistaken. :-)
-
- - Ernie P.
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- Ernest N. Prabhakar Caltech High Energy Physics
- Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
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