The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: > That would be the problem today; back in 1989 when SABRE (to the best > of my knowledge) was the main airline reservation system, they didn't > have that option. > > But it was long ago and far away, and my memory may be faulty! sabre was "main" for several airlines ... but there also was united's reservation system (Apollo) ... and in that time-frame, my wife had done a brief stint as chief architect for amadeus (which started off with the old eastern airlines reservation system, SystemOne) one of the things that cut her stint short with amadeus was that she side with the decision to use x.25 rather than sna as the main communication protocol ... which brought out a lot of opposition from certain quarters. it didn't do them much good since amadeus went with x.25 anyway. current amadeus website http://www.amadeus.com/ for other archeological notes ... eastern airlines res system had been running on 370/195. one of the things that help put the final nails in the future system project coffin http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys was analysis that if a future system machine was implemented out of the same performance technology as used in 370/195 ... and the eastern airlines res. system moved over to it ... it would have the thruput of 370/145. wiki computer res system page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system from above: European airlines also began to invest in the field in the 1980s, propelled by growth in demand for travel as well as technological advances which allowed GDSes to offer ever-increasing services and searching power. In 1987, a consortium led by Air France and West Germany's Lufthansa developed Amadeus, modeled on SystemOne. In 1990, Delta, Northwest Airlines, and Trans World Airlines formed Worldspan, and in 1993, another consortium (including British Airways, KLM, and United Airlines, among others) formed the competing company Galileo International based on Apollo. Numerous smaller companies have also formed, aimed at niche markets the four largest networks do not cater to. ... snip ... for totally unrelated topic drift ... at one point we were asked to consult with one of the main reservation systems about redoing various parts of the implementation. recent posts mentioning doing a paradigm change in the implementation of "routes": http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#61 Up, Up, … and Gone? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
