On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:41:12 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >That is a problem which IBM should have fixed early on but I think >they kept it this way for compatibility reasons. Don't rant or rave >IBM has done other such items for compatibility treason. That is why >for the most part a program assembled 40 years ago still works today >(99 percent of the time). Good or bad (you pick the reason). > If they don't change it, it will never get better. It's that simple. IBM mainframes can't survive forever on compatibility with increasingly obsolescent practices.
Our highways nowadays are mostly incompatible with horse-drawn carriages (well, except in parts of western Pennsylvania). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
