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From: jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Extended RDB vs OODB
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Date: 14 Aug 89 20:58:56 GMT
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jack@odi.com (Jack Orenstein) writes:
>I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing between an extended
>relational DBMS and one storing domains and ADT (instances).

That was my line!  What distinction are you drawing?

Better yet, could you give a simple example, please?  Something that
highlights the difference between using ADT's versus objects for
defining domains.  Thank you.

-- Jon
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Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@dgis.daitc.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your
color bitmapped window system on a network is emulate an ASR33?