23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
4:47 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
What's this ``most of us'' business, Kimosabe? PostScript is of
apparently no use to you; extrapolating that to the rest of the world is a
leap of logic. By your logic, the world has no use for Unix and people who
use it are deluding themselves, yet I still know a majority of people that
use it.
If you have an assembler for a core, wouldn't you then just use the
existing core? Call me silly, but to me that sounds like it wouldn't
contribute to the bottom line since you are spending time designing a core
which already exists.
Well gee, the box I use to store the money is is also overhead then.
Might as well toss that out, along with the abacus.
-spc (Sheesh)
PDF seems to be a very popular format these
days and that's based upon
PostScript. You can still get printers that support PostScript but hey, if
PostScript isn't your bag, then there are programs to convert the output
from TeX/LaTeX into your favorite printer format (as long as documentation
exists for it that is).
Which is why PS is of no particular use to most of us. You're
going to have to write an assembler too, else you end up with a
useless piece of silicon. Face it---without software, programmable hardware
isn't going to do much other than be an expensive paperweight. I would
contend that without software, then who in their right mind is going to use
your hardware?
Well, you CAN design in a core for which you've already got an assembler.
-spc (Guess
its back to using the abacus to keep business records ... )
The abacus is in the facilities column, which is overhead, and using it is
overhead.