On Sep 11, 06 19:21:05 +0200, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:43:19PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
Well, not exactly trial-and-error. They probably have design specs, but what is actually delivered in silicon is typically quite a bit off. Some things turn out not to be implementable, some trigger a slow path, some things are buggy.
Ah, now that again sounds a bit more realistic.
Yes, but these design specs might even be incomplete, point to other specs that cannot be published (M$ internals), and are typically in a shape that you cannot deliver them outside (contradicting versions, maybe even had-written notes, etc.), under no circumstances. If you want to push the data out, you would have to clean up and check IP - which would cast about the same as creating them in the first place.
Yes, this is true for (almost) the whole software industry. But you can partition the whole software industrie into two groups: The one that has so much clue that they update their specs or at least document the problems to prevent walking into their own trap again and the one that has not. --- From implementation reviews I must admit that the second group might be significantly larger...
:-/ I assume so. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>, SuSE labs, Zimmer 3.2.06, Tel. 74053-715 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org