Phil Payne wrote: > Then there was Nestle Frankfurt, who wanted both CPUs to have the same serial > number. > > BS3000 was pulled because Fujitsu (deservedly) lost a court case. One of the > settlement > conditions was the withdrawal of BS3000, another was $600 million, if memory > serves. At the > time, I not only expected it but felt it long overdue. Served 'em right. > AIM was an affront > to IBM.
I'll bite. Of all the things that could be an affront to IBM, why did you pick AIM? AIM - Advanced Information Manager - was the DBMS Fj developed for their own OS (X8) and then ported to their MVS clone (F4). IIRC it was a network data base, not heirarchical like IMS, not relational like DB2 (although later there was an AIM-RDB), and so probably not copied from anything IBMish at all. Unless you do mean AIM-RDB, which I wouldn't know if it was DB2-like or not. Just wondering... Greg P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
