Re: OCSP and LDAP

[lynn.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

on the other hand ... there some book someplace that makes the claim that
relational set the state-of-the-art back 20 years.

I was somewhat involved having done some support infrastructure for
system/r and then involved in the technology transfer of system/r from sjr
to endicott for sql/ds (before the technology transfer back from endicott
to stl for db2 .... note that SJR/bld28 & STL/bld90 are like 10 miles apart
.... with both SRJ/STL on the west coast and endicott nearly on the east
coast).

slightly related:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn2
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn3

some archeological tales:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#18 Computer of the century
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#29 20th March 2000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#55 Multics dual-page-size scheme
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#49 How did Oracle get started?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#44 IBM was/is: Imitation...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#5 OT - Internet Explorer V6.0
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#10 index searching
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#44 SQL wildcard origins?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#60 Amiga Rexx
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#17 disk write caching (was: ibm
icecube -- return of
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#69 Hercules and System/390 - do we
need it?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#8 Avoiding JCL Space Abends
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#9 Avoiding JCL Space Abends
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#71 Faster seeks (was Re: Do any
architectures use instruction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#36 VR vs. Portable Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#54 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and
literature
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#32 Collating on the S/360-2540 card
reader?
--
Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm


ptut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 1/7/2003 10:52 pm wrote:

I've used that explanation too :-).  The conversion went something like
this:

Other person: "Why is X.500 so special?  Why is no-one else doing this?"

Me: "Get your favourite book on database technology and look up
     'Hierarchical databases'".

[Time passes]

Other person: "I looked in several books.  Many didn't mention it at all,
               and one had a half-page historical note saying it's
something
               that was obsoleted by better technology more than two
decades
               ago".

Me: "Exactly".

Peter.