13 Apr
2005
13 Apr
'05
4:40 p.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:
As he said, we have to ask Bill Gates.
I'll just stick with "Gee Whiz" since no one's ever heard of "Greg
Whitten" ;)
The only think I thought, as I read his point of view, was
that since he was so great at coding and projects at uSoft,
why has the product been so shitty for the years he was there
and finally looks like it has begin to stablize once he was gone?
Dwight
The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC.
So,
which is it? Dr. Whitten also added in a follow-up:
"I also know something about Intecolor 8001 and Compucolor II machines
because I was Director of Software for ISC from 1978-1979. I bought an
ISC 8001 in Jan 77 and worked for them as a consultant in 77 and 78."
Cool, I've got both. Maybe he can help me get them working when he's not
busy having lunch with Bill G.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival 
14 Apr
14 Apr
2:38 p.m.
Dwight wrote:
The only think I thought, as I read his point of
view, was
that since he was so great at coding and projects at uSoft,
why has the product been so shitty for the years he was there
and finally looks like it has begin to stablize once he was gone?
I can't explain any putative stabilization after, but certainly a
company with good technical managers can still produce bad software.
There's no way a good manager can force a "mongolian horde" programming
team (also sometimes known as an "army of golems") to produce a good
product. It's hard enough to do that with a small team of carefully
selected expert programmers, and there seems to be a very limited
supply of those.
Eric
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