Re: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Scott,

>I found your dissertation quite interesting and I agree with a lot of what
you
>say.  I am wondering though, just how long you've been in the programming
>arena.   You said that IBM changed the terminology.  That is simply not
true.
>IBM invented most of the terminology.
<SNIP>
>They then rename ideas and concepts that have been around for eons,
unbeknownst to
>them, and believe they invented them.  Just because you didn't know it was
there,
>doesn't mean it didn't exist!
> Carol Bastien@cabastien on 07/31/99 02:09 PM

I heard that Microsoft just invented the idea of a Machine Independant Level
of Software,   So that
the OS doesn't know what the hardware looks like.    

About time someone invented something like that.    
Hey,  Wait a minute,   haven't we been running on a machine for 20 years
that .........

John Carr
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