Re: ObjectStore OODBMS to be in NeXTstep in 1993!

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From: Ernest Prabhakar
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:22

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In article <1992Jul29.043911.5426@redbrick.com> jfr@redbrick.com (Jon Rosen)  
writes:
> In article <1992Jul22.155249.556@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
overlord@leland.stanford.edu (Marcos Polanco) writes:
>> In general, I think the future  
> >holds the canning of the file system for a full-on database, so NeXT may  
> >just be (again) ahead of their time. Gotta go!
>  
>   Not! :-)  The PICK operating system as well as the IBM System 38
>   operating systems are both based on database structures rather
>   than file systems.  The S/38's DBMS is now used in the AS/400
>   and is better known as SQL/400.  NeXT may be ahead of the mainstream
>   but they are clearly, in this case, relative latecomers.
> 
>   Jon Rosen

Well, there are databases and there are databases.  Pick et al, if memory  
serves me, are hierarchical databases, or at most relational.   An  
Object-Oriented database file system is a very different creature, and NeXT  
would certainly be the first, though they are unlikely to be the only.  I'm  
sure someone who know Pick better will set me right if I'm mistaken. :-)

- Ernie P.
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