History of CM -- Discussion

Discussion and commentary on the content of the HistoryOfCM page on this wiki.

Hmm. The link on WebHome page said History of CM, but here I see dates from SCM history. Mechanical engineers have somewhat different understanding of CM concepts, and they believe CM is older than SCM. What's the truth?

-- TerryMiramax? - 30 Dec 2002

the truth is that CM has been around since the dawn of time. It wasn't formalized as a discipline until the 1950's when the US found it couldn't build missiles the same way twice. -- BobVentimiglia? - 12 Jan 2003

Then Lets see some more HCM content. By the way CCC was orginally a Hardware/Software CM concept.

-- PatrickEgan? - 03 Jan 2003

That discussion (what is CM/SCM) is an other story, which would deserve its own history. And is not settled. -- MarcGirod - 25 May 2007

This book is out of print. It was my bible for quite awhile. 1971 Samaras and Czerwinski

NeilSteeman - 15 Feb 2003

What about adding diff (1970-74, Doug McIlroy?) and patch (1985, Larry Wall, as per Wikipedia)?