Ross, An additional historical note - Oasis had a booth at some of the Spectrum shows. I do seem to remember that Pick had some influence on their product - perhaps their data retreival language.
Eugene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:53 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV > Back in the days of 8-bit computing, before the rise of MS-DOS, back in the era of CP/M, MP/M and the "trash 80", there was an operating system with an embedded database called OASIS, with an enhanced BASIC that was aware of the database ..... I mention this only as an historical note, as the environment evolved from an all-encompassing operating system to simply a "database", called THOROUGHBRED .... lots of similarities to Pick, right down to efficiency .... I remember seeing a 64K 4Mhz Z80 Altos system driving 16 terminals. > > If anyone is interested see www.tbred.com > > Ross Ferris > Stamina Software > Visage an Evolution in Software Development > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson > >Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 1:21 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV > > > <SNIP> > [Ross Ferris] > >The DICE system was not SQL but run under 'Thorobred' which is a 80x24 > >colorized memory-mapped video system that comes across as windows. It was > >not GUI either but we MV programmers never got good at memory mapped video. > >Too bad as it's the basis for overlaying whole or partial screens with > >relative ease. > > > >my 1 cent. > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.688 / Virus Database: 449 - Release Date: 18/05/2004 > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
