Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!wayne
From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <1989Jun30.020226.16398@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1030@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <442@greek.UUCP> <5577@athertn.Atherton.COM> <3892@peora.ccur.com>

In article <3892@peora.ccur.com> joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes:
>In article <5577@athertn.Atherton.COM>, jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke) writes:
>> Why all the flap???  Given the giant leaps in software in the  last  ten
>> years  (when  P.C.'s  didn't  even exists) does anyone really think that
>> software released in 1989 will be relavent at the turn of  the  century?
>> I don't know
>
>I'd bet that plenty of the software in use today will still
>be around in the year 2000.

Well, how old is most of the Kernel of UNIX and it's core programs
(sh, diff, grep, etc)? 1973?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."   "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Wayne Hayes	INTERNET: wayne@csri.toronto.edu	CompuServe: 72401,3525