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Newsgroups: comp.databases.pick
From: "Rob Allen" <robertwallen2...@yahoo.com>
Date: 2 Dec 2005 12:11:22 -0800
Local: Fri, Dec 2 2005 3:11 pm
Subject: Re: Updating MV Family Tree
dawn wrote: Well, it isn't really a product that we sell, it's just the environment > Do you call it "Reality"? I wasn't sure, so I simply have the company > name and not the product name in the poster. What do you call basic > and query? where our core applications run. Internally, we call it Reality or CoRA; basic is Data/Basic, and the query language is English. I think "CoRA" originated as McDonnell-Douglas' internal project name for the Reality-on-Unix product, later named RealityX and now just Reality. It's an acronym for "Common Reality Architecture" or something like that. > > There hasn't been a serious attempt > any stories related to that project? the Unix world. When we first looked at jBASE, they had the ability to take Data/Basic programs and turn them into C programs. At our insistence, they added the option to go to C++ also. Then management decided that the payoff wasn't there, so they pulled the plug on the project and we stayed with CoRA. > I considered others, such as the first Intel port, but that was muddied Revelation and CDI-1000 were almost simultaneous DOS ports. The latter > by the board that could be slipped into an AT. It was an Intel port, > but not a DOS port and I didn't know how to handle it. At this point, > I forget whether the first product running on Intel was from Pick > Systems or elsewhere. I also don't know who did the first DOS port - > Revelation, perhaps? disappeared quickly. I think CDI is the company that also did the IBM Series/1 port. Here's another little-remembered product: in the early 80s, McDonnell-Douglas licensed Revelation, tweaked it to resemble Reality, and sold it on PCs from Convergent Technologies. They named it the "M-1000" system. The base OS was Convergent's CTOS, which had a DOS emulation in which they ran Revelation, which was a Pick emulation. Lots of chances for things to go wrong... and they did. The first native Intel implementation I know of was the Altos 586, Rob Allen You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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