On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:51 PM, William Cowan <wmco...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
erik quanstrom <quans...@coraid.com> wrote:
it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger
component of a computer science degree. in the
case of vm, it's not even history; still alive and doing
quite well as z/(vm|os) on slightly modified power arch
hardware.
- erik
Not very mysterious to me. There's not very much science in computer
science. If we didn't forget it we wouldn't be able to re-invent it,
and
there would go most of the interesting work, not to mention a lot of
high salary jobs.
But how much of this work is actually redundant?
s
