In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said: > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:00 +0000 > > >And that poor design forced even worse design decisions on later developers > (just running with Mr. Rosenberg's idea.)
> Paul, is there anything you like about z/OS? > Compared to CMS, several things. > UNIX has its warts too! > > I remember when MicroSoft created the MS/Office bundle. > Macros that worked in the stand-alone releases of WORD & XL stopped working, > and > Micky-Soft refused to do anything about it. > They re-wrote the macro language (VBA) and left you high and dry. > (Just for the record, that's not UNIX.) > There was even an article in PC World (I think) that was entitled: > "You call that support"? > No, marketing. People bought it in droves. > IBM promised, in 1964, that you wouldn't have to re-compile anything, unless > it depended on timings, or undocumented/non-standard API's (they didn't use > API as a > term, then). > It's ironic; I feel I'd have better odds of running a 30-year-old program unmodified than a 10-year-old program. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
