Cyhist Jan 09 1997 F

Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:58:03 -0800
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From: Efrem Lipkin <efrem@acm.org>
Subject: Re: CM> Database history

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Sequitur was designed in the 70's before the PC to run on a DEC LSI-11, with some hope of getting it on an 8080 CPM system (fat chance). So when the PC was released we were prepared to port and actually released Sequitur for the PC rather shortly after the PC became available.

Efrem

At 06:26 PM 1/9/97 +0000, you wrote:
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>Efrem Lipkin wrote:
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>>In the late 70's I designed (with Joaquin Miller) one of the first IBM PC (also ran on Unix) relational databases for the Community Memory Project.
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>Before the IBM PC existed? Cool!
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>;)
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>Ross
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