Talk:OS/360
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[edit] A disaster?
I don't think it's wholly unreasonable to tag this with Category:Software engineering disasters - although now that I look at the contents of that category, I'm reconsidering! It was extremely late, extremely over-budget, extremely over-sized - you name it, along almost every axis it was a nightmare. A smaller company might have been sunk by such a problem - and many were, by smaller ones! Brooks himself had to step down from running the entire System/360 project to overseeing OS/360 to try and pull their irons out of the fire. Yes, it eventually got going, and was not too bad - but as Milo Medin's saying goes, "with enough thrust, anything will fly". Noel (talk) 03:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
