Re: VMs: RE: And the VMS' big secret is...

[ajb <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <NIEMKNCNNHJOGEJLILNMOENNCIAA.John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Grove
<John@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>       Nah,
>
>       It's too much work for a proof of concept. Demos are invariably the
>quick and dirty basic functions - if you want to see more, you pay for
>full development. I doubt your 15th century entrepreneur would have put
>that amount of effort into a proof of concept-then never used it himself

Perhaps he died - and the secret with him - before --

>even
>when nobody else bought into it.
>

he could complete negotiations? And this manuscript, a fairly advanced
model, is all that has survived? (At least as far as we know; I am not
entirely without hope that a second example will surface and trust that
this is within my lifetime.)

Regards

Anthony

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