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DJ Delorie wrote:

>> Except that I deliberately did not imagine a (relational) data base
>> but plain files.
> 
> Me neither, and since you're quoting what was originally written by
> me, let me add this quote from later on in that document:
> 
> "How is the database stored? I'm not going to specify that - it's
> irrelevent."
> 
Ah. 
So one instantiation of the database would be the entity most commonly 
referred to as "file system" :-)

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