How InterBase came to be
Who could be more competent to delineate early days of InterBase than her parents ? Fortunately, Jim Starkey and Ann Harrison were willing to share their memories about those glorious days, when IBM ruled the IT world, Microsoft was a small company and true programmers didn't use Pascal.
Jim Starkey is a Firebird advisory board member regularly appearing in IB-Architect mailing list.
Ann Harrison is president of IBPhoenix, one of Firebird Admins and a Firebird developer.
Ann Harrison's Reminiscences on InterBase's Beginnings
InterBase started in the shower. Specifically in the blue-tiled walk-in shower at 297 Reedy Meadow Road, Groton, Massachusetts, USA. There, looking through the shower window into the woods, Jim Starkey had the "Eureka" that eventually became InterBase.
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How Jim Starkey remembers it
I founded the company the day after Labor Day weekend in 1984. I had been at DEC for almost 10 years, had loved it, but didn't love it that much. I decided that if I were doomed to suffer, I would rather suffer from my own mistakes than somebody else's.
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Further recollections from Ann Harrison
InterBase started on Apollo Domain, a spectacularly wonderful workstation with terrific networking. The initial release supported Apollo, Sun, HP/UX, VAX/VMS, Ultrix, and something else that escapes me. So, if you wonder 'was InterBase originally a Windows/DOS system?', the answer is 'no'.
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