Database System
Concepts &
Architectures
,Not every quote from decades past
was sensible…
"I think there is a world market
for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
, Monolithic beginnings…
Early DBMS architecture was monolithic
Tightly integrated, self contained on huge,
expensive mainframes
Access to database via “dumb terminal”
screen session
All processing done on
mainframe in one place
Example of early IBM
mainframe computer system
circa 1960s
Interesting 1970’s IBM promotional film
that shows them: https
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjgZhAj
Concepts &
Architectures
,Not every quote from decades past
was sensible…
"I think there is a world market
for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
, Monolithic beginnings…
Early DBMS architecture was monolithic
Tightly integrated, self contained on huge,
expensive mainframes
Access to database via “dumb terminal”
screen session
All processing done on
mainframe in one place
Example of early IBM
mainframe computer system
circa 1960s
Interesting 1970’s IBM promotional film
that shows them: https
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjgZhAj
