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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#37 a couple recent posts referencing podcast files of the tribute http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#50 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#51 the first presentation in the technical sessions was by Bruce Lindsay talking about Jim's days at IBM San Jose research and working on the original relational/sql implementation ... system/r ... various past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr a big part of Bruce's presentation was Jim's formalization of transaction semantics and database operation that turned out to be the critical enabler for online transactions (being trusted and could replace manual/paper). ... oh and my remembrance story (above reference) is 1hr 14mins into the technical session podcast that starts with Bruce's presentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
