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Software House System 1022
A couple of guys in Cambridge Mass wrote the first database package that I was exposed to. They called it System 1022. It started life on the Digital Equipment Corp PDP-10 (aka DecSystem 10). Later it was used on DECsystem-20 (also a PDP-10 but with a different OS).|
System 1022 was a product of a company known
as Software House."
It was a clever name in the early 1970s.
For years, Software House was two guys,
Andy Garland and Charlie Houseman.
I used the product at several jobs, and used it for a large number of clients. I know that AMS would send regular checks for tens of thousands of dollars per month to Software House, and that CompuServ sent far more money each month. After the DEC PDP-10 systems were obsolete, Software House was sold to Compuserv. System 1022 was not a relational database as defined by Codd and Date. It was more of an inverted file database with the added ability to "map" between tables. This "map" function performed essentially what a join does in SQL. What System 1022 had was a good query interface. You could do queries against the database, and get useful answers back easily. It was far better thirty years ago than Oracle's SqlPlus is today. While System 1022 ran on Tops-20, it was fundamentally a TOPS-10 program, written in Macro-10 (the Tops-10 assembly language). It was never "ported" to native Tops-20 JSYS I/O while the Tops-20 product line was alive and commercially viable. There was a version released after the cancellation of the "jupitor" project, but by then it was too little too late. Names from Software House
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