> -----Original Message----- > From: David Fisher [mailto:dfis...@jmlafferty.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:41 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: [OT] RE: Tomcat Consultant > > > I'm not sure what you meant by PIC OS, unless you meant the Pick > Database model, which was originally implemented as a combined OS/DB > setup. Prime did offer a version of the DB model, called INFORMATION, > which ran on the standard OS. It was a really nice rapid deployment > engine. > > That's it. I couldn't recall because I didn't use it. We used the MIDAS > database which transitioned pretty well from home grown assembler based > / hash indexed keys. > An ISAM storage system doesn't really qualify as a database system. Does it? I mean, you had to hard-code all the access yourself. (I also did a little work in MIDAS. IIRC, we used it for our account billing system.) Information also used the same underlying segdir file structure for storing data, but it also had a real run-time engine for managing the data for you, and for processing near-english data queries. __________________________________________________________________________
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