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Re: Old HP3000 software
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:30:13 -0600
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At 11:50 AM 3/7/02 -0500, Edward Berner wrote:
> > A special section, headed by Lee Johnson and independent of the systems
> > lab, was working on other lower-priority, second-release projects: SIS
> > (Student Information System) SAS (Student Accounting System), QUERY (a
> > file inquiry and reporting system), ISAM (an indexed sequential file
> > access method), the sort/merge facility and the editor.
>
>Were the SIS and SAS applications ever finished?  Were they widely used?
>What became of them?

Yes, I can recall playing with them in the 70's.  I remember HP discontinued
them but I can't recall if they were ever licensed to anyone after that.
I even think I have the source code for them on an old MPE-III (or is
it MPE-IV) source tape...





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>Edward "curiosity killed the cat" Berner
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