[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > System/R reunion discussion of SQL/DS mentions that massive EAGLE > project in STL kept attention away from RDBMS ... allowing System/R to > get out as SQL/DS > http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-SQL_DS.html > > quote from above: > > The surprise of the MVS project was that it happened faster than I > thought it would. In other words, Plan A collapsed, all right? Eagle > collapsed, and all of a sudden, everyone turned to us and said, "OK, > when can you ship this database product?" [laughter] And that's when > we had to make some fairly hasty, difficult decisions on ... > > ... snip ...
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.htmL#52 Maybe off topic more on crash of Eagle ... and question about how fast a system/r could be released on MVS (aka DB2) http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-DB2.html above mentions that marketing quy was looking at a poster for the original Santa Teresa lab announcement ... with an eagle soaring above the building ... and decided on EAGLE for the grand MVS DBMS effort. I was in DC with offspring for vacation the week before the Air & Space museum opened (*AND* also the week before STL was to be opened). At that time, STL was going to be called Coyote lab (the closest post office and the name of the valley). That week a working ladies organization called "Coyote" was demonstrating on the steps of the capital (and getting lots of press) ... which appeared to prompt quick revision of the lab's name from Coyote to Santa Teresa (nearby cross-road, lab has since been rename Silicon Valley lab). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
