Second-system effect
Template:Short description The second-system effect or second-system syndrome is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The phrase was first used by Fred Brooks in his book The Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1975. It described the jump from a set of simple operating systems on the IBM 700/7000 series to OS/360 on the 360 series,<ref name="FOLDOC">Template:FOLDOC</ref> which happened in 1964.<ref name="mythical">Template:Cite book</ref>
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