21 Jul
2019
21 Jul
'19
1:40 p.m.
On Jul 20, 2019, at 8:45 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 7/20/19 2:37 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
Or because RMS isn't a database? Even an ISAM file is a very different beast from a
database. Come to think of it, you might deduce this from the fact that DEC built
database products on VMS, DBMS (a CODASYL database, whatever that means) as well as RDMS
(a relational database, built I think when that concept had just appeared).
paul
I never could figure out why would anybody need
dbase IV when RMS was built into the VAX file system?
Compatibility with other dbase files from other platforms that didn't have RMS?