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Alem

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PLZ HELP

Its my assignment the queation is

what does't mean that IBM mainframe computers used to be called a closed properitary sytem.
Dec 26 '06 #1
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sicarie
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It means that the source code of the system was owned by IBM exclusively and that no developers outside of IBM had direct access to the source code without paying lots of money to IBM to enter a partner agreement.

(Just playing around with the "unanswered questions" feature in the forums, and moving this out of the C/C++ Forum as it's obviously not a C/C++ question :)
Nov 1 '07 #2
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Yikes this is an old one. The dust made me sneeze.
Nov 1 '07 #3
sicarie
4,677 Expert Mod 4TB
Haha, yeah, well, hopefully it will be useful to someone...
Nov 1 '07 #4

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