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Article #4094Re: Need information about NATURAL
From: Jon Rosen
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 14:55
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 14:55
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In article <PX.91Jun3161211@zen.fct.unl.pt> px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim]) writes: >I had a look at it once. It was part of a (probably) public domain >database called ADABAS, written in COBOL. Ooops, this is certainly wrong... ADABAS is a quite commercial database management system from a German company called Software AG which has its US subsidiary headquarters in Virginia... It runs on MVS and maybe some other computers these days... It is NOT written in COBOL, but rather was completely written in IBM 370 Assembler (maybe partially written in C these days)... It is principally an inverted list data base system which has had a psuedo-relational wrapper grafted on to it to handle the marketing problem of not being truly relational. NATURAL is a 4GL which is used to write applications for ADABAS... Currently Software AG has a version of NATURAL which will access DB2 directly instead of ADABAS databases... Public Domain ? Naahhh... $250,000+? Yeahhh... :-) Jon Rosen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mejac!orchard.la.locus.com!prodnet.la.locus.com!jfr From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Need information about NATURAL Message-ID: <25052@oolong.la.locus.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 14:55:31 GMT References: <PX.91Jun3161211@zen.fct.unl.pt> Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles Lines: 20