[X4U] "Backwards Compatibility"

[Christopher Collins]

You really don't understand what innovation is, do you Ed?

Innovation isn't using something that someone else has created. Using  
TCP/IP isn't innovation. Using 50 cpu's isn't innovation.

Innovation is creating that different thing. Innovation is creating  
that different way of doing something. Innovation is creating a new  
CPU. Innovation is designing a new networking protocol Innovation is  
the bleeding edge!

And innovation is always hampered by "backwards compatibility".

My statement still stands.

cjc


On 19/06/2008, at 12:11 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
>
> I will have to disagree with you on this. Another vendor is  
> progressing and fast, yet does remain backwards compatibility  
> extremely well and they now offer to run UNIX on the same box as  
> their other OS. They have offered TCP/IP for over 10 years   and yet  
> 99.99 percent of the programs they run have really not changed  
> significantly in over 40 years.  The security on the system is (it  
> keeps changing the security level so I might be off by off a little  
> but the last I heard it was certified B1) which is really up there.  
> The networking compatibility  are *FAR* superior to most anything  
> else. They offer the best of just about everything (as far as  
> software and hardware) as to scalability (currently they offer a  
> processor options that has 50 cpu's as well as just 1). They have  
> over the years been far ahead of the rest of the computing world  
> support for various disk and tape systems. They run all (AFAIK) all  
> the worlds airlines reservations systems and most if not all of the  
> worlds banks. They are not at the bleeding edge of technology but at  
> a spot where if something new comes around they will offer it if  
> there is a demand for it.
>
> So I think you should rethink  the above statement.
>
> Ed