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Should Cache' be on the MV Family Tree?
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Re: Should Cache' be on the MV Family Tree? -
12-18-2005
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Luke Webber wrote: dawn wrote: There is a long list toward the top of ports and Fujitsu is in there moving to the Alpha Micro. If you have any stories, recollections, dates, please pass them on. You've even got Pinnacle (or the "pineapple", as I called it, since fruit names were popular), and bloody _IBC_ there. Thorough. <g Thanks. I did run it past each of the current companies before publishing it, as well as folks like Jon Sisk, Mark Pick, Dave Weaver and others. But I think I did all of the research before I ever talked on CDP, so I'm hoping to catch a few more nuances this time around. Do you recall anything about IBC? I didn't get much information on that one even though I could google for it without it being a regular English word like so many other company and product names are. I'm not checking my notes to recall, but I think that was one that had some stories associted with it. Any memories you have that you can pass along would be appreciated. Thanks! --dawn |
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Dale Benedict wrote: I took a look at your family tree... Now I'm not sure but didn't Fujitsu get a port of the Pick system?? Did I miss see it in the tree? And now some sorta twinkle way in the back of my mind has the name "Thoroughbred" (sp?) being some sort of MV with a DOS like interface. Can anybody out there confirm or deny this?? I googled a little. Check out BASIC_DEVELOPER_GUIDE_V852.PDF that came from the http://www.thoroughbredsoftware.com web site. Does anyone have ideas on how to tell whether this flavor of BASIC evolved from Pick BASIC or from some other flavor of BASIC? I couldn't find enough clues on this website to determine if there was any relationship to Pick, but I'll ask them if no one can tell or if no one knows. Do you have any clues that would lead you to believe this is the Thoroughbred you were thinking of? When I made the Family Tree, I figured that there had to be some products that had evolved very differently from those that still look like Pick and might be harder to identify as having branched from this tree. However, I followed a lot of false leads down paths before figuriing out a product was unrelated. I'm curious about this product. Since you are the only one who has mentioned this name to me so far, it would be great to hear from others if this rings any bells. Cheers! --dawn |
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Dawn, I always heard a rumor that dbase was started from people that had done work with Pick and had used that as a starting point in developing dbase. I've heard that rumor too. Anyone have some details or hints on that? |
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MAI.. now thats a name I haven't come across for a while.. I remember migrating data off an old "MAI" system written in Business Basic running on a multiprocessor Sequent machine - we replaced with an ADDS Mentor 7000-3 whilst we were waiting for Univision to be finished. We "fell out" with EDP, and ended up installing Reality/X (ADP's version!) on a Motorola 68K based machine (ADP sold thousands of the things but they were horrible!). Funny how a single word sets off memories.. Regards Simon |
An interesting MAI - Basic Four connection. Basic Four originally used
Microdata 1600 CPUs with special firmware. (Microdata was mainly an OEM
company in 1972).
I started in the Reality Dev. Group in Aug. '75. Two weeks later five
young new system programmers also joined the 17911 Skypark staff: Carl
Margolis, Scott Breeden, Dale Deaner, Jim Oden & Mike Trimberger.
Just a few years ago I ran into Mike T. at MAI - Basic Four. They were
moving and getting rid of some old systems from their lab (always an
interest of mine). Mike T. had been there all these years since
leaving Microdata. Probably still is there.
I forget what Mike worked on in the early days -- I was working on the
RPG manual & doing RPG QA for Reality (Really! it's true). I got this
assignment (RPG) because I was fresh from an IBM System 3 Model 10 shop
at Univ. of Guam.
John Bohner
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Simon Verona wrote: MAI.. now thats a name I haven't come across for a while.. I remember migrating data off an old "MAI" system written in Business Basic running on a multiprocessor Sequent machine - we replaced with an ADDS Mentor 7000-3 whilst we were waiting for Univision to be finished. We "fell out" with EDP, and ended up installing Reality/X (ADP's version!) on a Motorola 68K based machine (ADP sold thousands of the things but they were horrible!). Funny how a single word sets off memories.. Regards Simon Simon / Tony, An interesting MAI - Basic Four connection. Basic Four originally used Microdata 1600 CPUs with special firmware. (Microdata was mainly an OEM company in 1972). I started in the Reality Dev. Group in Aug. '75. Two weeks later five young new system programmers also joined the 17911 Skypark staff: Carl Margolis, Scott Breeden, Dale Deaner, Jim Oden & Mike Trimberger. Just a few years ago I ran into Mike T. at MAI - Basic Four. They were moving and getting rid of some old systems from their lab (always an interest of mine). Mike T. had been there all these years since leaving Microdata. Probably still is there. I forget what Mike worked on in the early days -- I was working on the RPG manual & doing RPG QA for Reality (Really! it's true). I got this assignment (RPG) because I was fresh from an IBM System 3 Model 10 shop at Univ. of Guam. John Bohner |
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