30 Jan
2012
30 Jan
'12
5:15 p.m.
> But, I'll stick with calling Superbrain a
MIS-use.
> What did it accomplish?
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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?"
Yes, that was certainly the mindset that I encountered with the Intertec
booth-suits at NCC Anaheim. I don't think that it actually accomplished
any of their objectives.
Perhaps it's just my political orientation, but I will still persist in
calling that a MIS-use.
Of course, we have evolved past such nonsense dropped
the idea of
secrecy ensuring lock-in.
We HAVE??!?
The descendents of the B Ark??!?
We now depend on actual reliability, economy and
usefulness of products
to be the determining criteria for product selection.
We DO??!?
I want to emigrate THERE!
Around here, they're using XP and OutHouse. ("actual reliability,
economy and usefulness"??!?)