dan@pyramid.UUCP (Danial Carl Sobotta) (03/15/86)
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) states: >When I was down in Boston for Boskone last month, I visited the Computer >Museum. (Well worth seeing, by the way.) The "computer pioneer" exhibit >was on Seymour Cray. Among various bits of interesting hardware, they had >a few quotes from him up on the wall. I copied down the shorter ones: > > "There has never been a good product designed by a committee." > > "Keep a decade behind." > > "I am all for simplicity. If it's very complicated I can't > understand it." I might add something else he said (don't know where I read it or if it's even true): "Real Programmers write in assembly" (they don't eat quiche either!) Remember, this is the guy who designed the Cray 1 using only pencil and paper! He probably got fewer ulcers doing it that way (rather than using the typical garbage software commonly found in most CAD systems!!) -- 'Out of the inkwell comes Bozo the Clown ...' DISCLAIMER: These opinions are neither mine nor my C-compiler's sun!pyramid!dan
phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (03/15/86)
In article <160@pyramid.UUCP> dan@.UUCP (Dan Sobottka) writes: > Remember, this is the guy who designed the Cray 1 using only pencil and >paper! He probably got fewer ulcers doing it that way (rather than using >the typical garbage software commonly found in most CAD systems!!) Hmm, how many ECOs did the Cray 1 have? And isn't it true that each Cray is practically hand built? You can cover up a multitude of sins that way, I think. -- "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will become the present, and respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible." Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com