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

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

None of which is relavent to my statement ....