> -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Razdow [mailto:araz...@truenum.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:31 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Tomcat Consultant > > OK, the "I'm gray-haired and remember when memory was core" game ;-), I > was > a regular Multics user myself, on MIT's Honeywell machines (with drum > disks), as well as an assembler programmer on PDP-1, 4 and 9. The 4 > had a > 125 kHz clock speed. I vaguely remember the PIC OS, but haven't googled > it > yet. > > -Allen > Well, when you do, make sure you query "Pick OS", since that's the real name. I'll save you a little trouble. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system. Nowadays, it's generally referred to as a multi-valued database, and several companies have implemented the DB portion of it onto various OS - quite a few for Unix/Linux. Even IBM had a version (U2) that they recently sold off to a company that was actually willing to give it some attention.
In the "gray-haired" contest, I once had access to a Victor PC -- essentially a IBM clone with its own OS. Most notable that I remember - besides the domino game that cheated - was their spreadsheet program, VictorCalc. It was a 3-dimensional spreadsheet: rows, columns, and pages, essentially creating a sort of cube. You could pick the edge you viewed the data by. For example, normal was page view where you saw row x column, but you could rotate the data and see row x page, or column x page. Great for financials, each page was a year, columns were months/quarters, rows were account (or whatever). A new year comes along, create a new page. You could rotate to column view, and instantly see how each month compared across the years. Or rotate to row view and see how a particular account fluctuated over each month/year cycle. It was kinda neat. __________________________________________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This Transmission (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender or telephone (512) 343-9100 and delete this transmission from your system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
