Re: Newbie question on table design.
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:59:19 GMT
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"Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn_at_garlic.com> wrote in message
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> "David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> writes:
> > I know practically nothing of CDC culture, but quite a bit about DEC
> > culture, going way back. My impression of CDC culture, gleaned
indirectly
> > from what Niklaus Wirth had to say about the CDCmachines, is that CDC
> > culture discovered interactive development later than DEC culture did.
I'm
> > just about certain that IBM culture discovered interactive development
later
> > than DEC culture did. This is somewhat related to the topic at hand.
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> I've often commented that it wasn't that IBM culture didn't have
> interactive development ... which was compareable to features/size of
> most other vendors (that might be considered interactive) ... it was
> that in the 60s, 70s & much of the 80s, the batch market size dwarfed
> the interactive.
Fair enough. IBM culture was big enough, at the time, so it could accommodate a large number of internal subcultures. The part of IBM culture that was visible to me was definitely not into interactive development.
Even though they had interactive terminals, on line editing, etc. etc. compiling a source program was a batch job. And that affected the workflow. Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 13:59:19 CEST