Walter Vaughan wrote: > Raymond Hurst wrote: > >> I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. > > Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment > had the same request. They wanted a database incorporated into a hard > disk drive, and that's what they got. An operating system and database > in one, on the hard drive. Damn good database, still in use all over the > world. IBM even distributes 2 versions today. That takes me back - hours of endless fun trying to get tape drives to work with native Advanced Pick - and it wasn't a great deal better on the 'alongside HP-UX' version. So much easier when Unidata came along and didn't try to be an OS as well as a DBMS.... Ahh, those were the days :-) Regards, Dave.
