On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved in granite: > Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > % I once worked for a company that had a PR guy write the user > document for a % product and then asked me to write the software to > make it do that! The > > You're kidding, right? This reminds me of one definition of a > programmer: the one who makes the lies the salesman told come true. > ;-)
Nope. That is a true story. Cast your mind back to the mid 80's and try to remember what the state of hardware was. Imagine now this great project. It is a 300 baud Smart Modem. That company no longer does any software. > % hardware had already been designed. It required implementation of > a % software UART, since the HW designer forgot one chip. Sadly, > there are all % kinds out there. > > Boy, howdy. That would've been one dead PR guy... To be honest, I should have known better. So should management and systems. I've always tried to please, though. I did make the SW UART work (with self-correction for drift), despite being told that it couldn't be done. In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
