30 Jan
2012
30 Jan
'12
4:47 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2012 at 16:19, Fred Cisin wrote:
But, I'll stick with calling Superbrain a
MIS-use.
What did it accomplish?
I'm sure their goal was "lock-in". When looking at the pre-PC world,
many people fail to understand that "lock-in" was a common product
concern. Keeping technical details secret was normal business
practice.
As in "How do I take all of my B5500 code and run it on my 7090?"
Of course, we have evolved past such nonsense dropped the idea of
secrecy ensuring lock-in. We now depend on actual reliability,
economy and usefulness of products to be the determining criteria
for product selection.
--Chuck