I've been reading a lot about the origin of SQL and RDBMS's. I'd love to spin one up and and see how it compares to today's RDBMSs. I was thinking along the lines of IBM System R or an early version of Ingres.<p>reading a lot about IBM System R and
Ingres has a bloody history. Well.. not Ingres in 4.x BSD per se, but the subsequent history of what was done by whom to who, and the financial consequences.<p>I only have this as oral history. I suspect its unrepeatably libellous.