Orthogonality and Disaster Recovery (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:52:05 -0700
> From: Tim May <tcmay at got.net>
> Subject: Orthogonality and Disaster Recovery

> One of the themes of modern computing I strongly support is that of
> "orthogonality," or clean functionality.

Any idea how a term meaning 'at right angles' came to hold all the various
interpretations it now does?...

I see this word in a lot of my reading and it almost never implies any sort
of 'indipendent multi-variant reference system'.


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