IBM Engineers

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 7 17:33:15 2004

> Its the same for every tech profession, nobody wants to get their hands

s/nobody/nobody except ARD/

:-)

> dirty learning the basics. Everything it taught by computer simulations
> where the user has no clue what is really going on at the basic level

I remember a quote attributed to I.K. Brunell : 'Any third-rate engineer
can make a complicated device more complicated. It takes a genius to go
back to first principles'. I suspect, alas, there are too many third-rate
engineers around now :-)

I sometimes wonder if all the people who actually understand how a
computer works at the bit level -- who can actually think in terms of AND
gates, OR gates and D-types, are on this list :-)_

-tony
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 17:33:15 BST