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• From: Ken North <ken_north@compuserve.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:34:32 -0500 (EST)

> > Most ideas in CS can be be lineaged down in one way or the other in
work that has been done in 50-60ties (those guys had all the good
ideas..:-)

Indeed.

In 1968 the CODASYL Systems Committee did a survey
of existing DBMS. There were more than 50 at the time.

"Survey of Data Base Systems"
http://www.sqlsummit.com/PDF/DatabaseSurvey_CODASYL_1968.pdf







Ken North
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