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- From: holt@sdd.hp.com (Holt Mebane)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: realtime kernel for 8051
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 17:33:19 -0700
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- Message-ID: <14q7gfINNos6@hpsdl134.sdd.hp.com>
- References: <3JUL199214244641@pine.circa.ufl.edu> <70352@apple.Apple.COM> <70443@apple.Apple.COM>
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- >
- >I did manage to get my project done, but, I'm not impressed with their
- >attitude nor their product.
- >
- >
-
-
- I will certainly echo the attitude part - they've really got one. I called once
- to report a bug I had boiled down to about 8 lines of code (including the
- function declaration, etc) I was informed that "they don't have time to teach
- me how to write C". I replied that I DO know C, could they at least look at
- the source. They replied "we don't have time to look at reams of source code".
- I told them it was only a few lines of code, and they begrudgingly looked at
- it. To their credit, I had a new revision of the compiler in about 4 days.
- But, I thought "what an asshole on the phone - I'm gonna write to the
- president of the company - but then I found out that WAS the president!!!
- What an idiot. I wonder if he knows the power of the Internet?? I wonder if he
- knows that when he insults someone at Apple or HP, that he's blowing off
- COUNTLESS sales??? Oh well, that's how little companies stay little.
-
- --
- Holt Mebane, N4HR
- Hewlett-Packard
- San Diego Technical Graphics Division
- 619-592-4882
-