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From: the@cs.utexas.edu (Khe-Sing The)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: CAD/CAM systems using commercial databases
Summary: Cbase 1.0 from USC with commercially available OODB
Keywords: cad/cam commerical dbms database
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Date: 7 Apr 89 23:48:58 GMT
References: <1014@ginosko.samsung.com>
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In article <1014@ginosko.samsung.com>, simkin@ginosko.samsung.com (Rick Simkin / Samsung Software America) writes:
> 
> I've been asked to locate any CAD/CAM systems that store their data using
> commercially available database products.  (The CAD/CAM systems I know of all
> use proprietary databases to store their designs.)

I have heard of such system. Cbase 1.0 from Univ of Southern California
uses Vbase, a commercially available object oriented database from
Ontologic.  For reference, see the article about it in Proc. IEEE
International Conf. on CAD 1988, page 392--395.

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