I'm not sure this adds anything. As I've said before I was a one of the first people to be hired by Bell Labs to work specifically on No. 5 ESS. During my interview they told me they wanted to hire 125 computer science PhDs. The year I finished there were 108 who graduated in the entire country. Although my dissertation was in numerical methods my first assignment was in software administration methodology.
As the project grew every day consisted of two 3-hour meetings in the morning and two in the afternoon. These focussed mainly on the interfaces between the various subsystems. This was the first ESS to be developed in C and with multiple processors. Several times I heard comments like "if we could get the right 15 people in a room together we could get this done." After a year and a half of this I decided to head for academia. If you read about 5ESS on Wikipedia you will learn that it is widely deployed in telephone networks worldwide including cell networks. It has 100,000,000 lines of C code and 100,000,000 lines of header files. I'm skeptical about the "15 people". Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 1:40 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a shame. Again we end up in the dominance-submission, lie to get > what you want, fake-it-till-you-make-it, conflict-driven game we see all > around us. [sigh] > > On 3/15/21 12:07 PM, jon zingale wrote: > > To be fair, this thread began with DaveW accepting wagers. I expect > there to > > be bluffing, chesting and posturing. I expect stoggies, jack's to be > wild, > > and for guns to be checked at the door. > > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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