Motivation

Motivation

Posted Sep 6, 2010 13:47 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: Motivation by mjw
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

http://lwn.net/Articles/148668/

There's a great comment on that article which includes this gem, pertinent to the topic of discussion at the time:

IBM (1960s):
"Our mainframe computers and OS/360 are a single product!"
---> you can't use our OS on Amdahl's computers!

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