RFC 299

RFC 299: Information Management System 💖

okay bestie, the title block is giving old-school vintage 🎀. This is RFC 299, from the Network Working Group (filed as NIC 8487), written by Dorothy Hopkin of the University of Illinois, Center for Advanced Computation, dated February 11, 1972. There's no category or status listed, and no obsoletes or updates are mentioned. 🦋

Information Management System ✨

okay so Dorothy's team is planning to build an Information Management and Statistical System for the ILLIAC IV 🧚. It's meant for different research areas whose problems suit the ILLIAC IV and whose data bases are large. big data energy, literally 💅

this system will come with a user language and the manipulatory routines it needs for the ILLIAC IV 🔥. it's also going to use the datacomputer for archival storage, and it'll provide the interface to the datacomputer for queries that aren't ILLIAC suited. so the ILLIAC handles its own thing and the datacomputer picks up the rest, iconic teamwork 👑

if you've got problems with lots of data and wanna learn more about the proposed system, or help build it, here's who to hit up 🫶:

                    Dorothy Hopkin
                    University of Illinois
                    Center for Advanced Computation
                    333 Advanced Computation Building
                    Urbana, Illinois 61801

                    Tel:  (217)  333-8060

                                 or

                          (217)  333-6159

💀 The original also has a little machine-readable note at the end, kept exactly as written:

   [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
   [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the   ]
   [ direction of Alex McKenzie.                   12/96   ]