Tom Brennan wrote, in part: >V2 came with a screen editor and was a much more complete product in >other ways too. It was kind of like someone said, "V1 is good enough, >ship it" when it really wasn't ready for prime time. V2 probably >should have been the first to ship.
Software industry nowadays calls that an MVP: Minimum Viable Product. No point in "finishing" it if it turns out nobody wants to use it anyway. Of course the challenge is that V: it's gotta be good enough that it doesn't fail simply because it wasn't baked enough yet to be useful/usable! I'm sure we can all think of products that failed that test. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 3:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: history and evolution of INFO/MVS, INFO/VM-VSE etc. I don't know where it came from, it was just a reel of tape that arrived on my desk one day. That was one of my first tasks as a new sysprog in 1983. What I really remember was users asking for changes to the screens, and the only way to edit them in V1 was by fiddling with the hex 3270 codes, which I did. V2 came with a screen editor and was a much more complete product in other ways too. It was kind of like someone said, "V1 is good enough, ship it" when it really wasn't ready for prime time. V2 probably should have been the first to ship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
