What (who) is JPLDIS - definition
JPLDIS
JPLDIS
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System. Query
system for UNIVAC 1108 [or PDP's? ] written in Fortran,
based on Tymshare's "Retrieve". Indirectly led to Vulcan
which led to dBASE II. Jack Hatfield, George Masters,
W. Van Snyder, Jeb Long et al, JPL.
JPLDIS
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System (or JPLDIS) is a file management program written in FORTRAN.
Wikipedia
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System (or JPLDIS) is a file management program written in FORTRAN.
JPLDIS is important because it was the inspiration and precursor to dBASE, arguably one of the most influential DBMS programs for early microcomputers.
