Old DB systems (was Re: What's Wrong With ORM)

[Chris Benson]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As it happens, I'm now looking into working on a project for which  
> knowledge of how DBs of the old days (say C-ISAM) worked internally  
> would be useful. Does anyone here happen to have pointers, knowledge  
> to share, etc.? It's all fun and games to have loads of disk space,  
> RAM, CPU, and whatever else until you try to work with a feature  
> phone :)

1/ I really don't think you can call C-ISAM a database. (But I suppose
if MS can get away with calling Access a database ...).

2/ I have a C-ISAM 3.10 manual (in hard slip case - they don't make
manuals like that anymore) and a (p'back) C-ISAM Programmer's Manual
version 5.0 less than a meter from me.

3/ I've probably got somewhere a backup tape with code and binaries for
'cisamdtisqlperl' that I used to ship with the legal accounting system I
was responsible for 10+years ago.  Whether I can find said tape and then 
whether I have a drive to read it ...

-- 
Chris Benson