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From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/27
Date: 1997-05-27T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97052710041056@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)


Tom Moran <tmoran@BIX.COM> writes:
>> All (or almost all) the really great leaps forward in computer technology
>> have come not from great, expensive, laboratories, engaged in highly
>> directed (commercially orientated) research
>  After thinking of Visicalc and Apple (which acually came after Wang,
>Basic 4, et al), I start drawing blanks on who outisde a great expensive
>lab developed great leaps forward.  Some examples, please?
>
>
    Borland Pascal, perhaps? And Unix/C maybe? (Big company, but it
    wasn't highly directed, commercially oriented research) Maybe the
    revolutionary new developments have not all come from garage
    operations, but they do seem to come more from a small group of
    really smart people who have the time to indulge in purely
    speculative endeavors instead of working on some well defined
    objective with a schedule and a budget.

    MDC

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer    ATT:        561.796.8997
Pratt & Whitney, GESP                           Fax:        561.796.4669
West Palm Beach, FL                             Internet:   CONDICMA@PWFL.COM
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-27  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93 [this message]
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1997-05-29  0:00 Software Engineering and Dreamers Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-30  0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-30  0:00   ` system
1997-05-31  0:00     ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-31  0:00     ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-06-02  0:00       ` Philip Brashear
1997-05-28  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-05-26  0:00 tmoran
1997-05-26  0:00 tmoran
1997-05-15  0:00 Any research putting c above ada? Jon S Anthony
1997-05-19  0:00 ` Michael Norrish
1997-05-20  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-20  0:00     ` Michael Norrish
1997-05-20  0:00       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-22  0:00         ` Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research putting c above ada?) Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-22  0:00           ` Software Engineering and Dreamers Nick Roberts
1997-05-22  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1997-05-25  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-26  0:00                 ` David Ray
1997-05-23  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-23  0:00               ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-24  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-24  0:00                 ` jason hummel
1997-05-25  0:00                 ` Craig Franck
1997-05-26  0:00                   ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-26  0:00                     ` Craig Franck
1997-05-27  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28  0:00                       ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-29  0:00                         ` Craig Franck
1997-05-29  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-26  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-27  0:00                       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-27  0:00                         ` Dann Corbit
1997-05-26  0:00                 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-26  0:00                   ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-26  0:00                     ` tstcroix
1997-05-27  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-27  0:00                         ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-31  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-02  0:00                             ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-09  0:00                           ` Ralph Silverman
1997-05-27  0:00                     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-28  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-27  0:00                     ` system
1997-05-27  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28  0:00                         ` Rich Miller
1997-05-28  0:00                           ` Bryce Bardin
1997-05-28  0:00                             ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-05-29  0:00                               ` Nick Leaton
1997-05-29  0:00                               ` Matthew S. Whiting
1997-05-28  0:00                             ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-28  0:00                     ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-29  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-29  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-30  0:00                     ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-05-30  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-02  0:00                         ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-02  0:00                         ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-07  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-02  0:00                         ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03  0:00                           ` Craig Franck
1997-06-03  0:00                           ` John Winters
1997-06-02  0:00                             ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03  0:00                               ` Martin C. Carlisle
1997-06-08  0:00                                 ` Joe Charlier
1997-06-09  0:00                                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00                                   ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-04  0:00                               ` John Winters
1997-06-06  0:00                               ` Volker Hetzer
1997-06-06  0:00                                 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-08  0:00                                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09  0:00                                     ` Jonathan Guthrie
1997-06-09  0:00                                       ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-11  0:00                                         ` Jonathan Guthrie
1997-06-11  0:00                                           ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-17  0:00                                       ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-09  0:00                                     ` Craig Franck
1997-06-08  0:00                                       ` John G. Volan
1997-06-09  0:00                                         ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09  0:00                                           ` John G. Volan
1997-06-10  0:00                                             ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08  0:00                                       ` Jason Shankel
1997-06-09  0:00                                         ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]                                 ` <19970606.49CA70..12B91@ae124.du.pipex.com>
1997-06-07  0:00                                   ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-06-09  0:00                                     ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-06-10  0:00                                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-10  0:00                                         ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-06-07  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08  0:00                                 ` Mathew Hendry
1997-06-03  0:00                             ` Ed Prochak - Woodland Consultants
1997-06-03  0:00                           ` Matthew S. Whiting
1997-06-03  0:00                             ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-02  0:00                       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-06  0:00                         ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-06-06  0:00                           ` Joe Charlier
1997-06-04  0:00                     ` S. Norby
1997-05-30  0:00                 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-05-23  0:00             ` Mark Allen Framness
1997-05-23  0:00             ` Mark Allen Framness
1997-05-23  0:00               ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-24  0:00             ` Bill Anderson
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