[Info-vax] Living with history, was: Re: First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-16, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> But everyone agrees *no one* would start today with HTTP as the 
> client/server middleware protocol of choice! It just happened and we are 
> where we are.
>

It's called history and we have to live with it. :-)

For example, if VMS was designed today, it wouldn't be designed
in the way it was. But we have what we were given decades ago based
on the technology of the time.

For an even bigger example, why do we have QWERTY keyboards instead
of some other arrangement ? Decisions made over a century ago still
control how people who use QWERTY keyboards (and their variants)
actually do use those keyboards.

Simon.

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