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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=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:Talk other</ref> which happened in 1964.<ref name="mythical">Template:Cite book</ref>

See also

• Anti-pattern
• Feature creep
• Inner-platform effect
• Osborne effect
• Sophomore slump
• Unix philosophy

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