re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#38 Quote on Slashdot.org http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#41 Quote on Slashdot.org
multics (5th flr, 545 tech sq) also managed to ship the first relational DBMS product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics_Relational_Data_Store and http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/mrds.html ibm san jose research was doing sql/relational "system/r" on vm370 370/145 (vm370 outgrowth of virtual machine work by the science center on 4th flr, 545 tech sq) ... but had real uphill slog dealing with the company. past posts mentioning system/r http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr during future system era ... 370 efforts were being killed off (lack of 370 products during the period credited with giving clone processors a market foothold). some number of past refs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys then when future system implodes there is mad rush to get products back into product pipelines ... q&d dirty efforts are kicked off to do both 303x (3031 is repacked 158, 3032 is repackaged 168, and 3033 is 168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips), 3081 (warmed over fs technology) and 370xa ... partial reference http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm however, head of POK manages to convince corporate to kill off virtual machine product and transfer all the people to POK in support of mvs/xa (claiming otherwise mvs/xa wouldn't be able to make ship schedule several years in the future). endicott finally did managed to save the virtual machine product mission (for entry and mid-ranage 370) ... but had to reconstitute a vm370 group from scratch. then, in part because the corporation was so focused on the next marvelous DBMS (EAGLE) ... the system/r group was eventually able to do technology transfer to endicott and get it released as SQL/DS ("under the radar" so to speak while the corporation was pre-occupied with EAGLE). when EAGLE finally implodes, there was a request about how fast could system/r be ported to MVS ... which is eventually released as DB2 ... initially for decision/support only. for other trivia ... this mentions early jan1992 meeting in ellison's conference room ... one of the people in the meeting claims to have done most of the technology transfer of sql/ds from endicott back to stl for what would become db2. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
