Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!camex!circus!kent From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: It's off until first half of '91 Message-ID: <1542@camex.COM> Date: 27 Sep 90 19:25:36 GMT References: <0093D408.262D5B40@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> Sender: news@Camex.COM Reply-To: kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) Organization: Camex Inc., Boston, MA Lines: 32 In article clg@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Craig Lee Gruneberg) writes: >Sounds like they blew it originally when they announced a delivery >date! [for 7.0] They should have told it like it was then. They tried. Have you never noticed that it is hard to know when software will be finished? They probably estimated when they honestly thought it would be, then tossed in some fudge, and told us the adjusted date. That date was wrong. The problem is that you don't know exactly what your software looks like until you finish it. You don't know how long it will take to write until you finish it. You don't know how fast it will run, nor how much memory it will use, until you finish it. One can estimate and guess about these things, but one will be wrong. Apple has been wrong. >Craig Lee Gruneberg [clg@cs.psu.edu]| 333 Whitmore Laboratory >Penn State University | >Department of Computer Science | Watch for Hubble repair >University Park, PA 16802 | updates here.... -- Kent Borg internet: kent@camex.com AOL: kent borg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617) 426-3577 "The prospect of their mass excites astrophysicists, who are always on the lookout for ways to make the universe heavier" -- The Economist, 9-22-90