In his visiting-Martian mode Paul Gilmartin writes: <begin extract> And even "OS/390" has problems; the solidus breaks GNU autoconfigure. IBM does not much care to play well with others. <end extract/>
"OS/360" dates from 1965. The onus, if there were one, would thus fall upon "others" to play well with IBM. This playing-well notion is not, however, a viable one. Even if futurology problems were discounted attempts to be compatible with multiple, often contradictory syntactic schemes would be foredoomed. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
