On Jun 2, 10:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Brown) wrote: > Actually, IBM built special hardware for this type of software to run on.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 American Airlines I was recently reviewing some old email exchanges with Jim Gray from late 70s and there was one discussing the 3830 (disk controller) ACP (lock) RPQ ... which basically provided logical locking function in the controller ... for coordinating multiple loosely-coupled (i,.e. mainframe for cluster) processors. the old research bldg. 28, ... where the original relational/sql work was done http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr was just across the street from bldg 14 (disk engineering lab) and bldg. 15 (disk product test lab) ... and they let me play disk engineer over there http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk During Jim's tribute, people were asked to come up and tell stories. The story I told was that Jim and I use to have friday evening sessions at some of the local establishments in the area (when eric's deli opened across from the plant site, they let us use the back room and gave us pitchers of anchor steam at half price). One Friday evening we were discussing what kind of "silver bullet" application could we deploy that would entice more of the corporation (especially executives) to actually use computers (primarily online vm370) and we came up with the online telephone book. However one of the requirements was that Jim would implement his half in 8hrs and I would implement my half in 8hrs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
