-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/07 15:11, Dave Page wrote: > 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 :-) Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGJ94WS9HxQb37XmcRAklHAJ9686PNCe8iY+9/CJcLOWJxvNp2NQCg7J6Q WgBB6A+kFTP2umCqH29O16E= =AiD6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
