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