Finding out what works, and maybe why.

[Guest legg]

Aside from churning out new OS revisions, some profit might be had

from looking at current examples of old systems that, in spite of the

status quo, have somehow managed to survive, in daily practical use,

and without the benefits of a re-install.

 

After all, with penicillin growing on stale bread, who knows what

accidental benefits can be created by continually recovering from

random errors over a length of time..........

 

This was always an informative aspect of hardware product development

- getting some ancient and field returns that had been ridden hard and

put away wet, to pore over (usually in your spare time, though, I'll

admit).

 

RL

[Guest Don Phillipson]

Re: Finding out what works, and maybe why.

 

"legg" <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote in message

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> Aside from churning out new OS revisions, some profit might be had

> from looking at current examples of old systems that, in spite of the

> status quo, have somehow managed to survive, in daily practical use,

> and without the benefits of a re-install.

 

If you look into the Linux community you may find what

you seek has been going on continuously for quite a few years.

The reason seems to be a critical mass of sufficiently skilled

users, who are more interested in results than in profits. We

must expect profit-oriented companies to focus their energies

by ignoring fields they judge less profitable (which never means

unprofitablel.)

 

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Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)