Friday, September 23, 2005

The Mainframe is not dead - Part 3

Today's Wall Street Journal had an article on Microsoft's new way to build an operating system: "old-fashioned computer science (that) called for methodical coding practices to ensure that large computers... wouldn't break." You know - use such old-fashioned ideas as modular programming, systematic testing, incremental development. The ideas that have made such mainframe software as IBM's operating systems so sturdy for so many years.

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