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BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-06
Brief: 1: Brief: 1Minor detail"Flowmatic eventually became COBOL "Perhaps would be better stated as:"Flowmatic eventually became the software product known as COBOL"You are talking about the movement from mechanical cards to internal commands are you not? The way you currently have it assumes they know what COBOL is. While most...; Tags: Programming languages, COBOL, Flowmatic; Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Microsoft recapitulates IBM: This is part two of an answer to talkback contributor Carl Rapson's question about why, if dumb terminals were dumb then, would they be smart now? This isn't an easy question, and to get to the answer I need to start with a long digression on history. Please bear with...; Tags: card, data processing; Blog posts 2005-09-20
Moore's Law - and Murphy's corollary: I have a cynical corollary on Moore's law as commonly understood to predict rapid, evolutionary, change in microprocessors. It goes like this: "in computing, as elsewhere, expertise decays in the presence of technical change, leaving only out-dated reflexes and organizational position in its place." I've worked, for example, for a...; Tags: job, data processing; Blog posts 2005-08-11