[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <7j9prfF34f1s1U20 at mid.individual.net>,
	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:37:35 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> In article <7j9n4cF34f1s1U18 at mid.individual.net>,
>> 	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:05 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have seen an amazing bunch of stuff written in a lot of different
>>>> languages.  Screen Control routines in COBOL.  Editors and even a
>>>> database system written in Fortran.  And most of them required that
>>>> you violate some standard at some point in the program.  Amazing what
>>>> some people will do to save a buck or prove a point.
>>> 
>>> Anyone seen a VAX database-ish product called Millennium? Dun and
>>> Bradstreet? Early 1990s I think.
>>> 
>>> It had an SQL-type language called PDL. Compiler (compiling to an
>>> interpretive code) written in COBOL. Run-time interpreter written in
>>> COBOL. Made some sense as the rest of the system was all COBOL, and the
>>> source and 'object' were all stored in the database system.
>>> 
>>> It was originally developed on a non-VAX system with VERY expensive
>>> compilers.
>> 
>> Well, as long as we're asking.... Anybody got the source to RIM? :-)
> 
> Sorry...what's that? Only RIM I know is a loader...!
 
Relational Information Management System -- Developed by Boeing and the
University of Washington for NASA in the early 1980's.

There are pieces and various cobbled together versions available but
no complete copies of what was actually in use.  And, yes, there was
a VMS version.

bill
 
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