• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>, Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:19:03 -0400

On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 18:51 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> 
> Database technology, centred on the capabilities of large direct-
> access disks, emerged at about the same time as UNIX, and the initial
> design of UNIX failed to take account of it 

You could equally well say that [relational] database designers failed
to learn from Unix.  It might simply be fairer to say the two groups
worked in different domains, much as, years later, data-oriented and
document-first XML people didn't always see eye to eye.


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