On 12/25/2013 7:36 AM, news13 wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:17:05 -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

It has to deal with the various database concepts used by the
insurance companies. Some of that code is likely older than 40 years.
That's why the whole ACA concept was flawed from the start.

Did they have databases 40 years ago?
As late as 2000, I was support for a project to have an oracle database
fed from KSAM(?) files.

IBM built what is now known as IMS for NASA to support the Saturn V and
delivered it in '68/69 time frame. The commercial release for the
System/360 was around '70. It's still widely used and under development.

So, "yes", definitely, but you had to be a "big boy" to play in the
beginning. They followed to smaller systems over the years...

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