On 2 Dec 2008 07:58:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown) wrote: >I think that Howard is saying that he is 60. It depends on what "that" >refers to. I.e. at 6 yrs old, a year was 1/6. Now it is 1/10th of that ( >1/6th) or 1/60th.
To one significant digit. (My wife and I average that age) Psychologically, years seem to pass 10 times faster than they did when I was six. I see changes in computing change maybe at the same rate as they used to change - but it seems faster and faster. I don't expect I will ever see a language dominate as long as CoBOL did - but the whole concept of computer languages has changed. Same thing with computer platforms. I foresee a time when one can run any OS on a mainframe, using virtual machines that can change rapidly. Or mainframes being repositories of data and security only. Are they moving faster than when the 360 came out? I really don't know, but it seems so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
