[Info-vax] Information about RdbStar?

[levin]

On Friday, January 14, 2022 at 8:33:50 PM UTC-5, levin wrote:
> I was one of the first people in RdbStar which eventually had about a hundred software 
> engineers. So I am keenly aware of its history. In point of fact I have a tower of DEC 
> tape cassettes that have the source code. It's in my office. The last physical remnence 
> of a project which cost around 130 million dollars. I think I also have a functional spec 
> of the distributed database query compiler. 
> 
> After years of growing pains integrating two organizations in Nashua N.H., and Colorado 
> Springs, we finally got our act together and were about a year from release, but that was when the 
> fiscal roof collapsed at Digital, and the project was downsized to an integration engine called DBI. 
> 
> Ping me if you want more information.
> On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 3:42:46 PM UTC-4, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote: 
> > On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:40:35 PM UTC-4, Maury Markowitz wrote: 
> > > I was putting together an article on TPC-C when one of the authors of the original suite mentioned it was developed for something called RdbStar. 
> > I assume that Author was my (Valbonne) buddy Francois Raab? 
> > He 'owns' TPC-C' and was heavily involved with the RDB team back then. 
> > I thought Jim Starkey was involved (of Datatrieve fame for the Digital folks), but not sure anymore. 
> > > Does anyone here have any materials on RdBStar from the period when it was being developed? 
> > I suspect all relevant documents were Digital internal use only at the time. 
> > 
> > fwiw, 
> > Hein