hancock wrote:
Question:
SABRE took years to develop. Did it take equally long to develop systems for competing airlines? For those using IBM platforms, could they use any code or designs for SABRE or were they propriety to American Airlines?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines there was airline control program (ACP) that was (vendor) operating system used for many of these online systems .... wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airlines_Control_Program there was long period of development of the ACP operating system as well as the customer applications built on the operating system. In some sense SABRE is a brand which is a whole bunch of online applications that were (initially) built on ACP. Some number of the other airline res "systems" were also whole set of applications built using the ACP operating system. Currently, some number of the applications have been migrated to other platforms. circa 1980 or so ... there were some number of other kinds of institutions using ACP ... which led to renaming ACP to TPF (transaction processing facility) ... wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/TPF from above: Current users include Sabre (reservations), Amadeus (reservations), VISA Inc (authorizations), Holiday Inn (central reservations), CBOE (order routing), Singapore Airlines, KLM, Qantas, Amtrak, Marriott International , worldspan and the NYPD (911 system). ... snip ... For some "transaction" drift ... sat, a tribute was held for Jim Gray http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First Bruce Lindsey gave a great talk about Jim formalizing transactions and databases management ... to provide sufficient integrity and reliability that they could be trusted in lieu of paper entries ... which was required to make things like online transaction processing possible (i.e. it was necessary to demonstrate high enough integrity and reliability level that it would be trusted in place of paper and human/manual operations). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
