Appearing in Datamation, a then-leading trade magazine focused on enterprise computing, " The King of Malaputa " ( translation : bad whore ) predates by at least 15 years Neal Stephenson's better-known novel, " Cryptonomicon " ( 1999 ) and its imaginary island nation, Kinakuta, which has been set up for use in anonymous, computer-based banking activities.
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The key development that led to the tremendous success of the HP 3000 was the bundling of the HP-developed network database management system ( DBMS ) called IMAGE ( now called TurboIMAGE / SQL ) that was reputedly inspired by the TOTAL DBMS developed by Cincom Systems, Inc . IMAGE was an award-winning database anointed by " Datamation " within two years of the database's introduction.
