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Fell into a transcript of an interview with Gerald D. Cohen, founder of Information Builders, Incorporated in 1975, whose first product was FOCUS, one of the leading mainframe databases of that era, from about 1970 to 1980. The whole thing is a fascinating insider's look. The techie part begins around the end of page 13 and continues through RAMIS, then FOCUS.
Link: http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache%3AcN6NFyPWZzsJ%3Awww.cwhonors.org/archives/histories/cohen.pdf+WebFOCUS+%2Bacronym+mainframe+%22information+builders%22&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AFQjCNFAMDVyVMp9IGM9tZxJiw_cVk-3cQ
Originally curious what FOCUS stood for. In the interview above, Mr. Cohen remarks, "We labeled this program FOCUS. I guess it stood for online computer users, but we needed was an acronym that was easy to remember. So we gave it a computer type name, and FOCUS was our term for this non-procedural language."
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