I think prime and vmark had done business together hence why the purchase -
I remember back in 92/93 when we had a pair of prime 1920's (I think)
running prime information, we then got a new prime unix box, that was
actually a rebadged MIPS running Riscos, they said at the time that PI+
the
Ah, I recall Prime small mini-tower (under the desk) ATT System V boxes too
-the EXL 300 series which ran a re-branded version of UniVerse (PI/EXL I
think).
This was rolled out before the EXL 7000 series which were MIPS RISC/os based
servers. I vaguely recall Prime was looking at Silicon
We actually do this with many of our big active files. Many benefits to
distributed files when it comes to maintenance :)
The file in question here is a deep archive file which will see little activity
and, once it's sized properly, will *hopefully* never change again.
Perry
-Original
What is the origin of Prime Information?
How did that come about?
The histories I've seen so far about Prime focus almost exclusively in the
hardware. Who developed Information ? Why did they make it Pick like ?
Where did they go ?
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U2-Users
Prime Information was originally developed by Devcom I'm not sure what the name
was at that time but I do know that Prime Computers bought them out and bought
the rights from Pick to develop independently. Prime became a database
powerhouse with the product at one time encompassing almost 50%
