Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System: Difference between revisions

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Eventually, BALLOTS split off from SPIRES and the [[Research Libraries Group]] adopted SPIRES as its data base engine while providing a graphical interface to its clients. ''Socrates'' was a library circulation management system rooted in SPIRES.

SPIRES became the primary database management system for Stanford University business and student services in the 1980s and 90s. 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 an IBM-mainframe Emulator developed by Dick Guertin. The DBMS now runs on [[Unix]] , [[Linux]] or [[Darwin (operating system)]] and is available under [[Mozilla Public License]].