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To: Chemsync who wrote (28976)	11/20/1997 11:58:00 AM
From: JW@KSC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 31386

[Gorillas Intelligence]this business software is where the brains are. In equipment such as a Flight Simulator, or other equipment where it is design to perform specific functions (Realtime), it is best to have a software person who has been an excellent technician in the past, the same goes for hiring an Engineer. Without a hardware background what you get is an engineer who will never have to work on the equipment, and not give thought to those who do. Software Engineers who have an excellent understanding of the hardware, will in the end, provide you with a program that will perform it's tasks in an efficient manner. In the PC world something went wrong (MSFT) Bloatware. There is no efficiency, and as long as they continue to make Harddrives bigger there seems to be no end to how inefficient programmers can be. Enter Java, hopefully a new era arrives to erase Bloatware. I've enjoyed 20 years on Main Frames, If I want the Computer to do something, I won't waste my time fooling around with programming languages, only to have a compiler try to interrupt what it thinks I want the program to do, and then debug it a dozen times. I'll do it once in Assembler (Machine Code)and move on. If you do it in HEX you've got time for SEX. Of course, I don't have the need to write a 20MB program either. JW@KSC Sumitomo Elec. Starts Sales of ADSL Modems November 20, 1997 (TOKYO) -- Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. started sales in October of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) modems called MegaBit Gear, for analog PBX lines. japanbiztech.com