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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Relational DBMSs
Message-ID: <57727@linus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 00:18:07 GMT
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Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: EVERHART%ARISIA.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com's message of 23 Jun 89 21:41:08 GMT


In article <18379@louie.udel.EDU> EVERHART%ARISIA.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com writes:

> Re the request about any relational DBMSs for Amiga:
> I ported RIM to Amiga some time back. RIM is NOT amiga-ized
> (in fact, it was not really VAX-inated...) but is relational and
> should be OK for large DBMSs that need to be accessed relationally.
> Its' most useful attribute is that it IS programmable, and the
> documentation on how to write a program interface FOR it is all
> there. The interactive part (which is QUITE crufty) is just a
> simple application that calls the database engine.
>    On a multitasking machine like Amiga, the right way to deal with
> RIM would be to make a self-contained engine out of the back-end and
> turn it into a server running in its own process to handle requests.

Even simpler: have you or anyone else tried to add an ARexx port to
RIM?  That would enable it to be integrated with many Workbench-based
applications.... 


Steven Litvintchouk
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