Re: Whatever happened to BS-12?
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:44:54 GMT
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:44:54 GMT
Message-ID: <qM78h.344260$R63.47202_at_pd7urf1no>
jlfoster wrote:
> "Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message <news:8JidnWPKlZm9O8HYRVnyvw@pipex.net>...
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>>"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:vX07h.20787$cz.317781_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... >> >>>jlfoster wrote: >>> >>>>And how in hell did System R (and the SQL nightmare) get so popular? Feh. >>>> >>>>http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/bs12.html >>> >>>It was good enough. >> >>And it had an IBM badge on it. For modern readers, consider how today the Microsoft badge protects the technology buyer from >>rebuke when it turns out badly.
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> Wasn't BS/12 also developed by IBM?
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