The Database Is the Computer
July 16, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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So many smart technologies have been created for and embodied in the successive generations of IBM‘s midrange platforms over the past four decades that it is hard to single out any particular idea of merit. If you put a gun to my head and made me choose, I would probably ask for the ability to single out one hardware idea and one software idea, which is a kind of cheating, I admit. But what else would you expect? On the hardware side, I think that single-level storage, which masks the complexities of where data is in cache and main |
