[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-20 14:30:01 +0000, David Froble said:

> Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 3/20/2015 12:31 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>> 
>>> Software doesn't wear out.
>>> 
>> 
>> Bit-Rot is very much a reality :-(
>> 
> 
> Perhaps an example of such?
> 
> I have yet to see any software that after some time doesn't do what it 
> had previously done.

Few are in a position to assume that the world does not change around 
the existing computers and existing software.  I certainly have to 
assume that the world and the requirements and the expectations will 
inextricably change.  Most computers are now networked, and 
applications are increasingly interconnected.

Most computers are not snow-globes, though.  If you do have one of 
those rare snow-globe computers, then there are only thermodynamics and 
the inevitable heat death of the universe to be concerned with.  Most 
folks, however, have to contend with internet connections and security 
and data integrity, and with changing scales and evolving requirements 
and expectations, and with hardware and staff that's aging out.  Or as 
it is sometimes more succinctly know, bit rot.



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