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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Software Technology is NOT Primitive
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 08:11:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 08:11:32 1987
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In article <3784@sol.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <1737@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) writes:
>>In fact, both software and hardware developers have tried to separately track
>>user's needs.  What they haven't done is track each other, ...
>
>I submit that hardware should track the software, which should track the user.

  That's true, but not sufficient.  In practice, the changes in
hardware and software change user expectations, which typically
affect hardware (performance, of course), and the loop starts up
again.

  Or, the user is not labouring in a vacuum...

--dave
ps: I love your characterization of C as bare wires on a wall, and I
can already think of a Pascalophobe to use it on.
-- 
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