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The future? The System/38 (aka AS/400 aka iSeries aka System i) had capabilities from the beginning, almost 40 years ago.
by puzzle 10y ago
The future? The System/38 (aka AS/400 aka iSeries aka System i) had capabilities from the beginning, almost 40 years ago.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIt's not a new idea, but that doesn't mean it isn't perhaps the future of somewhere it hasn't been before.
- protomyth 10y agoI sometimes wonder if addition to a Ethics class, Computer Science students need to take a Computer Archaeology class. It might not be a bad thing to bring up a lot of the concepts that aren't in the main stream anymore that have been tried.
- rbanffy 10y agoWe certainly should. We've been through a lot of ideas that were not practical at the time that could be practical again in the future.
- pjmlp 10y agoSurely, then younger generations would learn how Algol and PL/I were used to write OSes, how Xerox PARC and EHTZ managed to write OSes without a single line of C code and that UNIX wasn't the genesis of operating systems.
- icebraining 10y agoThe Future of Programming would be a good introduction: https://vimeo.com/71278954 https://vimeo.com/71278954 It's both inspiring and depressing.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI definitely support that. Many tips I give to people for their projects came straight out of 1960's-1980's CompSci or industrial work. It has been a ridiculous amount of effort finding all of it, though. So many silos. It needs integrated on a per topic basis, cleaned up, an executive summary, and references available for follow-up. Preferably with FOSS tools if it's an analytical method, language, etc. Then, people might quite reinventing the wheel or missing obvious things as much as they do now.