Re: Time to bring out the flamethrower



Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <4d346a9b$2$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In <k6v808-qj01.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 01/15/2011
at 10:39 AM, mikea <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

I used to think dependency trees, which the VOZ dinosaur world tends
to call prerequisites and corequisites (PREREQ/COREQ), were bad,

I take it that you never had to work with IBM's pre-SMP maintenance
methodology for OS/360. Cthulhu would have run away shrieking in
horror and nausea.

The reason Cthulhu lay sleeping in R'lyeh was that he was trying to
recover from dropping his Stage II deck.

Yes, I've been there and done that, including MFT-II R15/16, which were
released a week apart because R15 was so terribly, terribly bad. That
was back in ... 1972, I think, and I still shudder.

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