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SPIRES became the primary database management system for Stanford University business and student services in the 1980s and 1990s. It was also adopted by about two dozen other universities, including installations using the [[Michigan Terminal System]] (MTS), and [[VM/CMS]]. These universities collaborated through annual meetings of the SPIRES Consortium.
In 2004, SPIRES was migrated off the mainframe onto Unix platforms by means of ana System/360 emulator developed by Dick Guertin. The DBMS now runs on [[Unix]], [[Linux]] or [[macOS]] and is available under [[Mozilla Public License]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/spires/uspires/ |title=Stanford Unix-SPIRES |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701182838/https://web.stanford.edu/group/spires/uspires/ |archive-date=2015-07-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP) ==
The SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP),<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires |title=SPIRES High Energy Physics database] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990902061517/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ |archive-date=2 September 1999 |url-status=dead}}</ref> installed at [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]] (SLAC) in the 1970s,<ref>[http{{cite web |url=https://www.slac.stanford.edu/spirespubs/findslacpubs/hep7000/www?r=SLACslac-PUBpub-7110.pdf |title=The Virtual library in action: Collaborative international control of high-energy physics preprints |last1=Kreitz, |first1=P.A. et|first2=L. al|last2=Addis |first3=H.] |last3=Galic |first4=T. |last4=Johnson |id=SLAC-PUB-7110 |date=February 1996}}</ref> became the first website in North America<ref name=firstWebsite>{{cite webmagazine |url=httphttps://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cmsarticle/march-2012/happy-webiversary?pidlanguage_content_entity=1000922und |title=Happy Webiversary! |last=Khirallah |first=Diane Rezendes |date=March 2012 |workmagazine=Symmetry: dimensions of particle physics |publisher=Fermilab/SLAC |accessdateaccess-date=2312 NovemberJune 20122025}}</ref><ref name="early-www-at-slac">[{{cite web |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml |work=The Early World Wide Web at SLAC: Documentation of the Early Web at SLAC (1991-1994)]</ref> and|title=Early theChronology firstand databaseDocuments accessible through the [[World Wide Web]] in 1991|archive-url=https://web.<ref>[archive.org/web/20110726005043/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml The|archive-date=26 EarlyJuly World2011 Wide|url-status=dead}}</ref> Weband atthe SLAC:first Earlydatabase Chronologyaccessible andthrough Documents<!--the Bot[[World generatedWide titleWeb]] in 1991.<ref name="early-www->]<at-slac" /ref> It has since expanded into a joint project of SLAC, [[Fermilab]], and [[DESY]], with mirrors hosted at those institutions as well as at the [[Institute for High Energy Physics]] (Russia), the [[University of Durham]] (UK), the [[Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics]] at [[Kyoto University]] (Japan), and
the [[Indonesian Institute of Sciences]] LIPI (Indonesia). This project stores bibliographic information about the literature of the field of [[High Energy Physics]] and is an example of [[academic databases and search engines]].
SPIRES is, as of 2012, being replaced by [[INSPIRE-HEP]], a modern system based on [[Invenio]] software. INSPIRE is run by a collaboration of the physics labs at [[CERN]], [[DESY]], [[Fermilab]] and [[SLAC]], and interacts closely with HEP publishers, [[arXiv.org]], [[NASA]]'s [[Astrophysics Data System]], [[Particle Data Group]], and other information resources.<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://projecthepinspire.net |title=INSPIRE Project Information] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091226013444/http://projecthepinspire.net/ |archive-date=26 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Operating platforms ==
SPIRES currently runs on [[Unix]], [[Linux]] and [[Darwin (operating system)|DarwinmacOS]] platforms. Its primary use today is for the world [[physics]] communities, and "legacy" data at Stanford University. SPIRES runs under emulation of the original ORVYL operating system. The emulators are written primarily in "C" compiled by 32-bit "gcc" or "g++" depending upon architectures (ppc or i386). The SPIRES engine is less than one-megabyte in size, but performs all the searching, maintenance, and formatting of databases. A 270k emulator runs a 973k SPIRES. In 2017, the Emulators were adapted by Dick Guertin to become 64-bit programs dealing with 32-bit SPIRES.
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