On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:50 -0400, "Bill Arnold" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's the way to do things; supporting legacy stuff in > > your latest and greatest system just doesn't make sense. > > > I don't think IBM got that memo! > > "IBM's current mainframe operating systems, z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, and z/TPF, > are backwards compatible successors to operating systems introduced in > the > 1960s, although of course they have been improved in many ways." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_mainframe_operating_systems >
That bears out what I was saying. It's easy(ish) to dump legacy support when you're Apple, not so much when you're a market leader in the business world. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
