One of my programmer employees once said to me when I asked why is this beta taking so long to clear...he said...." It takes longer to debug software than to write it". AMEN!! George, W6GF
--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do unrelated features get broken? To: "Wayne Burdick" <[email protected]>, "Barry" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 1:07 PM LOL Wayne, the day when programmers ARE NOT human is the day we had all better start running for the hills! Bill W5WVO -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Burdick Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 16:53 To: Barry Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do unrelated features get broken? Even though features may not be related, one can cause side-effects in another due to unintentional modification of variables. Of course we jump through a lot of hoops to avoid this, but programmers are (unfortunately) human. 73, Wayne N6KR On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Barry wrote: > Not being a programmer, I'm just wondering how seemingly unrelated > features get broken with firmware changes. > > For example, the current decrease in SSB power out with APF. > Another example, the frequency shift casued by chaining memory > buffers. > > Tnx, > Barry > > -- > > Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
