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- Path: sparky!uunet!panther!mothost!schbbs!ivhs.mot.com!fred
- From: fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner)
- Subject: Re: Why is NN so common?
- Organization: Motorola IVHS Group - Northbrook IL
- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:21:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <fred.721077668@ivhs.mot.com>
- References: <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Keywords: poor design
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- green@ie.utoronto.ca (Marc Green) whines without citing any examples:
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- >'ve recent switched to a machine that uses nn and am stunned at what poorly
- >designed piece of software it is. It violates just about every human factors
- >principle in software design (consistency, dialog closure, smooth error
- >handling, etc). And of course, the documentation is a joke.
- >...
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- Having a bad day?
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- >Why is this damned thing so common?
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- Because it happens to be an excellent newsreader. It is unsurpassed
- for configurability, has good performance (timewise, anyway), and
- has *excellent* documentation, IMHO.
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- Now if only it would thread...
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- -FB
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- Fred Brunner - Sr. Systems Engineer (all opinions expressed solely my own)
- Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems Group - Motorola, Inc.
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