From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:06:14 GMT
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Dr. Peter Kittel, Commodore Germany (peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com) wrote:
: >:
: >: [Andy built a BridgeBoard...]
: >
: >Yes, it's an impressive effort, that no doubt MANY people worked on.
:                                                ^^^^
: No, not so many. That's an advantage as well as a disadvantage: You can't
: get development sooo fast with few people, but what is done is much better,
: because you don't suffer of so many interfacing problems between the work
: of different people. This again speeds up the work, in that you don't
: need so much time to focus a big number of people to the common goal.
: There's obviously an optimum, and our engineering is not so far distant
: from it when regarding the produced quality.
:

I agree with this.  One thing I've found here at MSI is that the worst thing
you can do to a project behind schedule is add manpower, and that small
groups tend to get better results, although they take more time.

:
: But you refuse to accept rather simple facts that others (in the know)
: tell you. You can do this only if you know it better or at least believe
: you do. In refusing to believe these other people, you directly state
: that you know more abot those items than they.
:

Not necessarily.  When Andy said that the OS/2 development team examined
the Amiga operating system extensively, the reason I didn't believe it was
NOT because I thought I knew more about it than he did -- in fact, I admitted
that I didn't know much about that particular subject at all -- rather, I
refused to believe it because Andy had done nothing to prove that he knew
any more about the subject than I did, and it seemed like the type of claim
that Amiga users always like to make.  The fact that someone ELSE posted
definitive information on the subject does not show that I was wrong to
disbelieve Andy; it just shows that I was right to demand proof.

:
: >Just because Andy worked on some part of the BridgeBoard
: >project, doesn't mean that he is an expert on the internals of Windows or
: >OS/2.
:
: Not on the whole thing. But for the items discussed here, he did make
: himself literate by reading it up in books and citing them afterwards.
: So yes, in regards of the admittedly few items discussed here, he is
: now an expert. When you keep refusing to believe him you claim more
: expertise than he.
:

You know, during that part of the discussion, Andy sure gained a lot of
respect from you guys by pointing out some things from an OS/2 sourcebook.
Now, did I disagree with anything that came from the book?  Of course not.
However, by using the sourcebook to counter arguments that were NOT mine
(or anyone else's, for that matter), Andy did more to parade his ability
to cut and paste than his ability to obtain facts relevant to the discussion.

:
: Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
:
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