--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Jim Starkey <jas@n...> >
That was the original design goal of the JRD family. I got fed up with

> other DEC developers blaming bad performance on the users' failure to
> properly tune the operating system, file system, or database system.
> DEC's first database system, DBMS-11, was based on IDMS, and had

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<b>This</b> is good historical information, and it explains a lot.
Thank you for the explanation.