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[email protected] (John Kington) writes: > WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's when I was > learning to program. Much better for an imperfect typist like me than > the ancient keypunch machines that was the other alternative. I never > heard of it being used in a commercial environment though. ... evolution of wylbur at nih http://datacenter.cit.nih.gov/interface/interface206/if206-01.htm also http://datacenter.cit.nih.gov/interface/interface241/40years.html we had done customer call on NLM in the 90s, NLM was sort of home-brew CICS system from the 60s with BDAM ... a couple of the guys responsible were still around and got to gosip about 60s (as undergraduate in the 60s, the univ had ONR grant to do computer catalog and was selected as beta-test for original CICS, one of my tasks was debugging CICS). misc. past posts mentioning cics &/or bdam http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bdam By the early 80s, NLM had reached point where web search engines got nearly two decades later ... number of items so large that queries returned hundreds of thousands items. A new kind of interface originally done on Apple called GratefulMed ... that instead of getting back the actual responses, it got back the number of responses. GratefulMed managed query strategies ... holy grail was looking for something that returned more than zero and less than hundred (boolean logic queries tended to be bimodel out around six or seven tokens, switching from hundreds of thousands to zero). past posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#64 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#67 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#68 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#75 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#77 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#82 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#84 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#4 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
