>>>>> "JtUO" == Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  JtUO> Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
  >> ISAM?

  >>> From the RDBMS world, a kind of index I think, or something along
  JtUO> those lines.  MySQL for example has a type of table called MyISAM.

it predates dbms stuff. it stands for indexed sequential access method
and it means you can do random or serial access to a set of
records. cobol and pl1 support isam internally and many systems used it.

uri

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