| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] History of Interbase's failure to make it to the big time. |
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| Author | Ann W. Harrison |
| Post date | 2005-10-19T18:31:10Z |
Dmitri Kouzmenko wrote:
a concurrency control mechanism first occurred to
Jim in 1981 or 82 while we were still working at
DEC. He built a database there called Rdb/ELN
that used MGA/MVCC, and when it failed to find
acceptance there, he started a company around the
idea.
Regards,
Ann
>Actually, the idea of using record versions as
> - InterBase have MGA since 1985
a concurrency control mechanism first occurred to
Jim in 1981 or 82 while we were still working at
DEC. He built a database there called Rdb/ELN
that used MGA/MVCC, and when it failed to find
acceptance there, he started a company around the
idea.
Regards,
Ann