Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> writes:
> I didn't google it to research the origins, but I don't think runoff was
> particularly DEC. I wrote a COBOL text for a course using RUNOFF on a Prime
> computer in 1981. I thought it was a spinoff from Waterloo script (and I
> don't know the origin of that either). --dawn

waterloo script was clone of cms' script. cms script was originally done at the science center by madnick and then after gml was invented, gml-tag processing support was added to script.

runoff was originally done for ctss ... some of the people went to 5th floor, 545 tech sq to work on mutlics ... and some went to science center on 4th floor, 545 tech sq.

there was former ibm (vm-cms) systems engineer from the LA branch office .... did an implementation of newscript for trs80. doing a little search engine ...
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n6/70_GEAP_tricks.php another mention buried in this article
http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j82/b/

this lists various trs80 software
http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-sw.htm
and has 9/15/1981 pdf copy of newscript 6.1 document http://www.trs-80.com/cgi-bin/downsoft.cgi?NewScript_(1981)(Prosoft)(pdf).zip that mentions being done by VM-CMS Consulting Services, Inc.

the editor in newscript has commands that look like the cms editor (and in fact there is section describing the differences from the cms editor). the script commands are the runoff-like, pre-gml commands from the original cp67-cms script.

there is also newscript 7.0 pdf file from 1982 http://www.trs-80.com/cgi-bin/downsoft.cgi?NewScript_v7.0_(1982)(Tesler_Software_Corporation)(pdf).zip

later version from 1984 is called Allwrite! http://www.trs-80.com/cgi-bin/downsoft.cgi?Allwrite!_(1984)(Tesler_Corp)(PDF).zip

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Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/