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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:41:21 +1000
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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 21 May 2025 19:23:45 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:
>
> > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:100j8t8$2g75r$5@dont-email.me...
> >>
> >> On Wed, 21 May 2025 07:41:12 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:
> >>
> >> > Basically the software industry is a joke. The advances have all been
> >> > done by hardware engineers.
> >>
> >> Didn't they use software to manage that?
> >
> > Yes - as the guy (Jeff) said - software written by lunatics/artists.
>
> Was RCU invented by the hardware guys, or the software guys?
>
> What about journalling? Two-phase commit? Diffie-Hellman? RSA? Kerberos?
> kexec?

I'm not disputing advances in computer science. Three way diff
would be my favorite.

It then needs to be incorporated into a professional product.
Which is properly funded, understood, someone has pride
in the integrity of the product, and bugs reports are always
addressed with professionalism - no matter what is required.
Literally to the ends of the earth. If they ever needed more
money to fix a bug, they'd just jack up the prices they charge.

In other words, MVS (z/OS).

I doubt that the original author (Jeff) was working on z/OS when
he wrote about the shambles he saw.

BFN. Paul.