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To: Jack Zahran who wrote (8070)	12/30/1997 4:26:00 PM
From: tphillips	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Mike, I'll entetain the motion that you take a hike. Your posts are all filler no killer. If I had a buck for everytime you used the word "funny" in your posts, I could buy a lot more shares of TOPRO. By the way, I agree with the previous poster...see your HR Director, I'm sure your employer(s) have a wonderful Employee Assistance Plan you could utilize. Shame to see you Engineers go to waste. TOPRO Baby!!!

To: Jack Zahran who wrote (8070)	12/31/1997 2:04:00 AM
From: Mike Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Jack, You asked: No Mike please don't go yet, you still haven't answered my questions: What was that C-like interpreted language? Why didn't you just convert it to C if it was so similar? What relevance does B-Tree's product have on this thread? Come on Mike, these are simple questions for such an experienced pro like yourself. Oh by the way, why did you reveal B-Tree secrets if you later state that you want to protect the identity of the companies you worked for? I don't know Mike, looks like you got some personal issues with B-Tree since you didn't care to protect them. ====================================== Jack, I don't mean to run away from your questions or from anyone's. I was at lunch break when I posted this afternoon. I couldn't answer your questions quickly in laymen terms, so that everyone can understand. So here are my answers to each one of your questions. What was that C-like interpreted language? B-Tree designed an interpretative language that looks like C. By interpretative language, I mean the code is not compiled (translated into executable binary code) ahead of time but an interpreter translates it into exec. bin. code at run time, therefore the code runs very slow. This is similar to the old BASIC language. I suspect the reason B-Tree did this were that so we cannot use their code on a different hardware platform, therefore rendering us dependent on them (more $$$). Why didn't you just convert it to C if it was so similar? B-Tree supplied a set of library routines that works with their hardware. We don't have the source code. If we're going to write the C code to mimic what they are doing, then we are in fact designing a similar system to them, then why do we spend money to buy their systems? For a better story about B-Tree, see my next post. What relevance does B-Tree's product have on this thread? Somebody posted it here and also sent to me by e-mail a list of 19 companies that claimed to work on Y2K solutions for embedded systems, among them is this B-Tree company. All those 19 companies are mickey mouse companies, may be Wonderware is the best known one. I mentioned B-Tree here because this is a company that I know really well, and I know exactly how they are going to approach the Y2K problems. See my next post also for explanations. I also mentioned that this is a company that makes crappy products. Somebody asked me to be specific, so I gave more details. Jack et al, I checked the thread tonight and there are about 20 posts addressed to me. Some of them contain a bunch of personal attacks, or accusations. I have thick skin, so that doesn't bother. But all those posts distract me from replying to questions that are relevant to TPRO. I forgot now who asked what, so I will make a series of posts tonight, and I am sure I will forget to answer a few. First, I have a full time job and a busy family and social life, so I will answer each post as time permits. Secondly, I don't get paid for doing this. So if I omit to address certain issues, then you can post it here again and remind me by e-mail for instance using the post number. Don't send me long e-mail or make long posts, I just don't have time to read each line of your long post. Deal? Also don't accuse me for avoiding questions or running away. I have nothing to fear, nor I have anything to hide. You also know where I post and which stocks I invested in by checking on my profile. You can follow me wherever I go, be my guest, I mean this to that guy Gerry who made those threat on the SYNT thread. I don't care what kind of threat you want to make, that's the game of little kids, but I get distracted and miss what you want to ask. Now follow me to my next post about B-Tree.