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From: Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Article on new mainframe use
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:52:20 -0700
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On 8/16/2024 11:28 AM, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

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> trivia: I worked with Jim Gray and Vera Watson on the original
> SQL/relational implementation, "System/R". Also we were able to do
> technical transfer to Endicott (under the "radar" while corporation was
> preoccupied with "EAGLE", next great DBMS) for SQL/DS. 

This is the first I have heard of "EAGLE".  Can you talk about what it 
was like?  Was it an "enhanced IMS", or did it follow the CODASYL model, 
or something completely different?


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