leful...@sbcglobal.net (Lloyd Fuller) writes: > And this product is called NOMAD from Select Business Solutions. It > has only been available since 1976 or thereabouts. > > And you can even MIX hierarchical and RDBMS if you want.
recent post in thread on cloud killing traditional hardware & software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#59 includes reference to this posting by "greateribm" The Origins of Cloud Computing -- from the 1920s http://greateribm.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/the-origins-of-cloud-computing-from-the-1920s/ 4th generation languages from virtual machine-based commercial service bureaus (originally cp67 spinoffs from ibm cambridge science center) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_software and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS some of this evolution with competitive offerrings from the different virtual machine based commerical service bureaus ... including NCSS, IDC, and TYMSHARE. some more discussion here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language note TYMSHARE started offering its cms-based online computer conferencing to SHARE in Aug1976 http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/ now in parallel with this was Codd and relational DBMS was being done at IBM San Jose Research ... original SQL/relational implementation was System/R on vm370/cms at SJR. Lots of folklore that while corporation was pre-occupied with getting out the strategic DBMS product "EAGLE", it was possible to do tech. transfer to Endicott and get it released as SQL/DS. Later when "EAGLE" imploded and crashed&burned ... there was request about how long would it take to port System/R to MVS. past posts mentioning System/R http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr past posts mentioning science center at 545 tech sq http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech -- 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
