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On 12/06/13 13:36, Martin Phillips wrote:
It is interesting to note that just a few weeks before
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On 12/06/13
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If I'm
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If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some
I can add that I think VMark rewrote Prime Information in C which really
boosted the performance. I think they called it Prime Info or something
like that.
I'm not sure about this. As far as I know, once VMark took ownership of Prime
Information, they gently retired it.
Are you thinking of
PI/Open I think that was
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dale kelley
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Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information
I can add that I think VMark rewrote
Martin,
Those are details I hadn't heard.
Thanks,
Chuck
On 6/12/2013 7:36 AM, Martin Phillips wrote:
I can add that I think VMark rewrote Prime Information in C which really
boosted the performance. I think they called it Prime Info or something
like that.
I'm not sure about this. As far as I
Thanks Martin,
I remember those days, but only vaguely and never knew those details.
dale
On 06/12/2013 07:36 AM, Martin Phillips wrote:
I can add that I think VMark rewrote Prime Information in C which really
boosted the performance. I think they called it Prime Info or something
like that.
I don't know about this idea of retiring Prime Information. The Information
flavor is part of Universe, you can still select it, so I suggest they merged
it into Universe, for lack of a better phrasing.
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On 12/06/13 13:36, Martin Phillips wrote:
It is interesting to note that just a few weeks before first release the
marketing guys decided to change the platform on which it
would be launched. If we had gone the assembler route, this would have
imposed a huge delay. With C, it took just a few
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Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information
On 29/04/13 19:25, Jerry Banker wrote:
Prime Information was originally developed by Devcom I'm not sure what the
name was at that time
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On 30/04/2013 19:03, Wjhonson wrote:
Anthony I'd be very surprised if the DevCom code was created that way.
My understanding, and I'm willing to be corrected, was that the DevCom
On 29/04/13 19:25, Jerry Banker wrote:
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
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On 29/04/13 19:25, Jerry Banker wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information
Anthony I'd be very surprised if the DevCom code was created that way.
My understanding, and I'm willing to be corrected, was that the DevCom code
was built independently
(And thanks for those who jogged my memory
Interesting for the issue of Devcom / Escom, I happen to have in my grubby
little hands a copy of Pick Hits from 1988.
Escom is listed in Kirkland, and there is also a company called Devcom Mid
America which is listed in Oak Brook Illinois
Now where have I heard of Oak Brook before? I mean in
SMI and, of course, RPL.
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Interesting
No, SMI was always in Des Plaines, IL.
Oak Brook was home to the McDonalds User Group (MUG) which managed
accounting for hundreds (thousands?) of McDonalds hamburger
franchises. That software was originally in RPL until it was ported to
BASIC. (I had a hand in that.)
I have a couple clients in
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On 27/04/13 05:26, Wjhonson wrote:
Okay but let's just talk about 1990-1993 How did Computer Vision
exactly get its hands on Prime Information
, 29 April 2013 6:59 PM
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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
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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took over some of the offices
that Prime had on Speen Street. When Prime went under, don't ask why, at the
end of the 80's, early 90's, Vmark bought Prime Information.
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:03:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [U2] History
On 27/04/13 05:26, Wjhonson wrote:
Okay but let's just talk about 1990-1993
How did Computer Vision exactly get its hands on Prime Information ?
This happened *before* the final bankruptcy of Prime?
Or did somehow Prime sell or spin off Computer Vision with Prime Information
as well?
iirc
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so explain that better
and whats the source?
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Prime Computer out of Natick Massachusetts went out of business. One
of their products was PR1ME INFORMATION. They were acquired by another
computer, Computervision (Thank you Mark, I'd forgotten the name).
The product PRIME INFORMATION was acquired by VMark. Vmark was later
acquired by
If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some smoke and mirrors in all this)
that Informatics acquired Ardent and then assigned the CEO of Ardent as
the President of Informatics, or something like that, to run both Ardent
and
Vmark + Unidata = Ardent - Informix - IBM - Rocket, right?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:12 PM, David Taylor da...@sysmarkinfo.com wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some smoke and mirrors in all this)
that
I believe that was Informix rather than Informatics.
Richard Lewis
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:12 PM, David Taylor da...@sysmarkinfo.com wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some smoke and mirrors in all this)
that
division to Rocket Software.
Larry Hiscock
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Bingo.
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Vmark + Unidata
: [U2] History of Prime Information
Vmark + Unidata = Ardent - Informix - IBM - Rocket, right?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:12 PM, David Taylor da...@sysmarkinfo.com
wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some smoke
Okay but let's just talk about 1990-1993
How did Computer Vision exactly get its hands on Prime Information ?
This happened *before* the final bankruptcy of Prime?
Or did somehow Prime sell or spin off Computer Vision with Prime Information as
well?
Enquiring minds want to know
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