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John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> wrote on 24 Sep 2017 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

>>> The original databases were written in Cuneiform on clay tablets about
>>> 6,000 years ago. The were used for keeping track of tax owed and tax
>>> paid. (What else could justify the cost of implenting it?)
>>
>>They also needed database-integrity, 
> 
> Yes, but implemented by humans.

So?

>>used a defined code-format,
> 
> Ditto.

Ditto.
 
>>and while read-only,
> 
> Not really : tablets could be added or replaced.

They were baked into read-only-mode.
 
>>they had entry security by one-time sealed envelope.
> 
> More likely by two big men with very sharp spears and a suspicious
> attitude.

Not so.

They often were enveloped by another layer of clay 
which was signed and then baked again for posterity.

So a kind of read-once security now used in quantum data security.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-22 06:17 -0700
  Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-22 19:26 +0200
    Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-23 08:37 -0700
    Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-23 08:44 -0700
      Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-23 18:01 +0200
        Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-23 09:09 -0700
          Databases, was: Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-23 22:34 +0200
        Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-23 09:15 -0700
          Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-23 22:35 +0200
        Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-23 09:26 -0700
          Databases, was: Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-23 22:45 +0200
          Re: Max size file John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-09-24 10:58 +0100
            Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-24 12:12 +0200
              Re: Max size file John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-09-24 12:06 +0100
                Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-24 17:21 +0200
              Re: Max size file jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-09-24 10:07 -0700
                Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-24 22:05 +0200
  Re: Max size file John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@sympatico.ca> - 2017-09-23 15:20 -0400
    Re: Max size file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-23 22:48 +0200

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