Actually, IBM built special hardware for this type of software to run on. Warren -------------- Original message from Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------
> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
