Re: I wonder how many people still remember how to use it?
I think I know the confusion here.
From memory, (probably wrong), the filesystem was called Files11 or some such.
The file system had extensions to create databases as part of the filesystem with which you used FDL? (File Definition Language) that specified things like fields, sizes, types, bucket sizes, indexes and with that you can basically create a database file.
it was efficient, meant you could use standard backups as everything looked like a file, some really funky stuff.
My best effort was being able to pass commands to batch jobs real time using the OPER console functionality so could to a REPLY/TO the OPER prompt to direct the program what to do next, even done sanity checks on input - best one was a colleague saying it was impossible and couldn't be done and then me presenting, yeah, here's how to do it, I wrote this in a previous company. :-)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
