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From: maier@bdblues.inria.fr (David Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: pointer swizzling
Keywords: seamless integration, pointer swizzling, OODB, persistent objects
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Date: 12 Sep 89 13:35:52 GMT
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I tried to track down the source of "pointer swizzling" about three months
back in response to a request from Larry Rowe.  I first heard it at
Servio Logic around spring of 1983.  I talked to a couple of people
who were at Servio then about where it came from--whether it was
coined at Servio or not.  Nobody was sure.  One person speculated that
it might have arrived with the Tektronix Smalltalk contigent who joined
Servio early on: Jason Penney, Paul McCullough, Alan Purdy.  The earliest
place I could find it written down was in an internal memo by David Schrader
(now at DEC Colorado Springs) from the summer of 1983.

So it's not new usage, although has been only recently that it seems
to have come into wide currency, I imagine because so many people are
thinking about the problem now.

Dave Maier
Gip Altair
maier@bdblues.altair.fr
(on leave from Oregon Graduate Center)