Jet Engine History

A question started a bit of digging and poking about.   I’ve always been interested in the history of Access and Jet and the code names used way back when such as Cirrus.  The Wiki Microsoft Jet Database Engine article had a footnote referencing a page titled Jet Engine: History

Regretfully all the links mentioned on that page no longer work.  Although some of the MS white papers mentioned might still be available by digging.

Which reminds me. There are two versions of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide.   I have the first edition which is the one with the light blue cloud cover which was sort of the theme of Windows 95.   I should purchase the second edition which has a white cover just to ensure it’s part of my collection. 

And I should spend a few minutes rereading the table of contents just to refresh my memory so if I ever need some information I’ll at least know that it’s available.

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 15:01 by Tony
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# re: Jet Engine History

My bet is that the Jet history at the beginning in the 3.5 version is identical to that in the 3.0 version. If you sent me the 3.0 version, I'd send you the 3.5 (scanned to PDF, not typed).

Really, I'm not sure the 2nd edition is of sufficient use to be worth spending the money to acquire it. Certainly, I use it, but then, I've never fully reconciled to Jet 4.0!

It's really too bad they didn't put the effort into a Jet 4 edition. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if we someday got an ACE version which included a lot of the content that would have appeared in a Jet 4 edition.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:33 PM by David W. Fenton

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