In the seventies at TI most software was done in the Equipment Group and they 
did super stuff.We send emails globally and when I traveled I did it with a 
Silent 700. Did performance reviews from Norway using rubber cups and phone 
handset.Military group was an other story.. Lost our shirt on GPS because we 
underestimated the software part 300K code. Was a wake up call and I was asked 
to set up a department strictly for code development. Did focus on management. 
Never in my professional life had an 8 to 5 job. Just like Rick, Fortran 50 
years ago and focus on the job at hand. Most my professional life was ion 
management.  After retirement fortunate to meet Brook Shera and Richard Mc 
Corkle and still looking for team members to fill their void.We have some 
exciting projectsBert Kehren

In a message dated 10/2/2018 11:40:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
hmur...@megapathdsl.net writes:


rich...@karlquist.com said:> At least for me. I took 1 course in Fortran 50 
years ago, and that was the> extent of my software education. During my whole 
career, I have too busy> being well paid to design hardware, to have any time 
left over to learn> software.  After Fortran was over, there was the Pascal 
fad, then the C fad,> etc, now I guess Python is the latest. Never got involved 
in any of that. 
Interesting.
All the hardware people I've worked with have been reasonably happy working on 
software.  That may be more common in the digital world.
As an example, most people write PAL code as logic equations rather than 
schematics.
It would be interesting to compare the costs of hardware vs software for a big 
chip project over time.


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