Back on those days we developed company software. Databases were unknown to us, so we had to do everything with files. Oner trick to speed up searching for information was to split up data into 26 different files. Each one for a starting character you wanted to store and search back. Mostly the first letter of the last name.
Those files were text files so in case there was a software bug we could easily correct them by hand.
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1 u/roznak 10 Mar 2017 22:34
I am really getting old! I used to type in these BASIC games from that book! Then you power it off and the game was gone.
1 u/roznak 10 Mar 2017 22:40
Back on those days we developed company software. Databases were unknown to us, so we had to do everything with files. Oner trick to speed up searching for information was to split up data into 26 different files. Each one for a starting character you wanted to store and search back. Mostly the first letter of the last name.
Those files were text files so in case there was a software bug we could easily correct them by hand.