I am a current nortel employee and I work on the DMS-100 system. Just to give you an idea of the complexity: the product's 35 million+ lines of code (in a proprietary language called protel) have been written over the past 24 years. It came out in 1976 as the first digital switch. It is old and fussy and really, really hard to improve. The legacy problem strikes again.
Right on Libertarians...
For those of you who want to grok libertarianism see:
www.libertarian.org (excellent intro to our philosophy)
www.lp.org (the party's official site)
-- Keller
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I am a current nortel employee and I work on the DMS-100 system. Just to give you an idea of the complexity: the product's 35 million+ lines of code (in a proprietary language called protel) have been written over the past 24 years. It came out in 1976 as the first digital switch. It is old and fussy and really, really hard to improve. The legacy problem strikes again.
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If I disable downloads, how do I download the patch?
Oh yeah, install linux!
mk
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Right on Libertarians... For those of you who want to grok libertarianism see: www.libertarian.org (excellent intro to our philosophy) www.lp.org (the party's official site) -- Keller