Re: Newbie question on table design.

Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn_at_garlic.com> writes:
> on a specially modified 360/40 with virtual memory hardware ... and
> "CMS" (cambridge monitor system) for interactive computing. When
> standard 360/67 with virtual memory became available, cp40 was ported
> and renamed cp67. later with the introduction of virtual memory standard
> on all 370s, cp67 morphed into vm370 (and cms was renamed to the
> conversational monitor system).
>
> the really big volumes in vm370 started to appear with 4341s ... with
> the explosion in the mid-range market segment (also seen by DEC with
> vax/vms). subsequently in the mid-80s, this market segment started
> moving to workstations and large PCs.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#11 Newbie question on table design

for other topic drift ... the original relational/sql implementation was done at SJR on vm370 (in the late 70s, backus office was about six doors down from mine, and codd's office was upstairs from mine). lots of past references to system/r
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr

then there was system/r technology transfer from SJR to Endicott for SQL/DS (i.e. vm370, vs/e, 4341s, etc).

for some other drift ... one of the people in the meeting mentioned here
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#15

claimed to have handled majority of the technology transfer from Endicott back to STL for DB2 (even tho SJR and STL were only about 10 miles apart). This was all "mainframe" and mostly implemented in PLS. (DB2 on the corporation's mainframe "batch" platform, MVS)

Later there was "SHELBY" project done in Toronto to do a relational DBMS implementation for OS2 implemented in C. This became available on a number of (non-mainframe) platforms and is also marketed as DB2. a few past posts mentioning shelby:

http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#1 Foreign key in Oracle Sql
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#41 Mainframe Applications and Records Keeping?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#13 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones