On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Dave Wade <[email protected]> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
> > Sent: 29 January 2018 19:06
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM
> >
> > WTF? IMS was well before the 1970's, to say nothing of the database for
> > SABRE. Outside of IBM there was at least one database on GCOS (nee
> > GECOS).
> >
>
> I worked in a site where we used the Honeywell Codasyl database, which I
> think was called IDS and the original Transaction Processing System TDS,
> which was very similar to CICS.
> I believe the first RDBMS was on Multics but I have no idea of the why or
> when...>
>

One of my classmates at the University of Southwestern Louisiana
(USL - now The University of Louisiana at Lafayette) used the Multics
RDBMS (Multics Relational Data Store, or MRDS[1]) in 1979 (give or
take a year) for one of his class projects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics_Relational_Data_Store

Paul

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> > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
> >
> Dave Wade
>

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