In message <[log in to unmask]>, Denys
Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I'm not sure that HP got the idea of IMAGE from Total.  And Total is not a
>product of IBM, I think that was a product of Cincom.

Yes, Cincom. It ran on IBM, which is perhaps the source of Zelik's
confusion. I worked on the first Total project that Philips did, which
was the re-engineering of a manufacturing app done with IBM's DBOMP on
an IBM370.

Total was a 'network' database, as is Image. And if Image wasn't a steal
from Total, then either there's only one way to do a network database,
or great minds think alike. Incredibly, mindbendingly, outer limits of
coincidence, alike.
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