Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Software Maintenance
Message-ID: <3362@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 22:25:26 GMT
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From article <6338@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, by EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges):
> I am looking for network discussions on software maintenance.  Is
> there such a group (I've checked the help info, no luck).  Or is
> this a good conference for issues of maintaining software?
 Well, one fairly important place to look is MIT... There was a
seminal work on maintenance and the evolving of large systems done
as part of project MAC, which popularized the use of version
numbering schemes in Multics and the Arpanet, both of which had to
last far longer than the typical application (be it accounting,
graphics, spreadsheet or whatever... you can't affort to rewrite
operating systems and networks regularly: ask IBM about os/360).
  Regrettably, i can't remember the **right name** of the paper.
Maybe when I get down there next month...

--dave (drat! no references!) collier-brown
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