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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 71 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/orana/~3/289424522/when-and-how-europe-met-pythia
| Thanks to Paul for announcing the founding of Pythian Europe . Paul finished his blog by inviting me to tell you the story about “how we met Pythian”. Here it is.
As I get older, I am starting to see some symbolic links connecting significant moments of my life. I realize now that the link to Pythian started 20 years ago in Prague in the year 1988. Let me share with you the trip. Although in Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev began to moderate the totalitarian regime by introducing Perestrojka , the government of Czechoslovakia was still ruling with an iron hand.
I worked as a VMS administrator on a Czechoslovak clone of the VAX computer and, by the way, I became an expert in backup/restore, an expertise I had to exercise several times per week due to frequent crashes of our 29MB disks (also a East European clone). Besides administering VAX/VMS systems, I had to write hundreds of lines of Assembler, Fortran, and C code, just to handle inserts, updates, and queries for records in a few data files.
One day a colleague of mine brought me a tape, which he had smuggled from Vienna (there was an embargo on US software imports). On the back of the tape was written, “Oracle V4 for VAX/VMS.” Oracle V4 was released in 1984, the year I knew better as the title of the famous George Orwell novel. Out of curiosity I installed it after hours.
The “Readme1st” said to run one script with a strange extension — “.SQL”. Some program calle ... |
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