DOS 1.0 (based on CP/M) came in '81 (or '82?) along with 8086 and the Basic from M$ :). 8080 - CP/M?
I remeber I loaded punched tape in refrigerator-sized heaters and entered loader's binary code in the middle 80's. :) That was 16 bytes. :) It's good to be young! but old enough to remember :-p -- Alexandre OCP DBA/Devel > Tom, > > As I recall DB2 on a PC came about way back in the dark days of the 8080 > processor and DOS (no version) somewhere around 1980 I believe. I seem to > vaguely remember running it on a very old (now a days) predecessor of the > laptop. If memory is serving I believe it was called an Osborne? RDB was > offered on the IBM mainframe and there was a VAX version that I remember playing > with as well. > > Yeah, it's good to be old and reflect on the twists & turns we went through > to make things work. Anyone remember programming with less than 1MB of ram? I > remember trying to make things work on 16K. > > Dick Goulet > Human memory is fragile, thank GOD! > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________ > Author: "Mercadante; Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 6/25/2002 6:08 AM > > Oh you bunch of young whipper-snappers! > > A long time ago in a place far-away, we started with simple File Systems. > Then came ISAM file systems. > These begate DBMS systems. Note there was no 'R' in original DBMS systems. > Some of these were simply an extention to ISAM files that allowed (and > demanded) a more formalized collection of files. In these files, there were > tables and indexes and primary keys. I remember these as "Hierarchical > Database Systems". Still no such thing as foreign keys. > > Finally, I believe, DEC came out with the RBMS system which was (I know I > will be corrected on this) one of the first Relational Database Managment > Systems to be made available for large systems. (I have no knowledge of IBM > products - anybody? When did DB2 make itself known?). > > On PC's there was also something called RDB I think. > > See, its good to be old! > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:24 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > i give up the R, is that the difference? > > joe > > > Santosh Varma wrote: > > > could any body point me the difference(s) between DBMS and RDBMS ?? > > because in DBMS also as in RDBMS, we can related two or more > > tables..if a column exists in another table for relation ?? > > > > Thanks and regards, > > > > Santosh > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Joe Testa > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Mercadante, Thomas F > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alexandre Gorbatchev INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
