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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Second System Effect
Summary: misunderstanding the phenomenon?
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.014111.16044@ico.isc.com>
Date: 23 Feb 91 01:41:11 GMT
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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pat@megatest.UUCP (Patrick Powers) writes:
> In twelve years in the biz I haven't observed a second system effect.

I think there must be some serious differences in understanding what is
meant by "second system effect" - because in watching "the biz" for a
longer time, I've seen very few pieces of commercial software in the past
decade that *haven't* exhibited the second-system effect.  You can see it
in most commercial UNIX systems, the X Window System, emacs, virtually all
PC apps that have been around for a while.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...But is it art?


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