On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 18:51 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
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> Database technology, centred on the capabilities of large direct-
> access disks, emerged at about the same time as UNIX, and the initial
> design of UNIX failed to take account of it
You could equally well say that [relational] database designers failed
to learn from Unix. It might simply be fairer to say the two groups
worked in different domains, much as, years later, data-oriented and
document-first XML people didn't always see eye to eye.
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