Re: Speculation on ARM licensed by DRAM companies
- To: jax@xxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Speculation on ARM licensed by DRAM companies
- From: "Robert J. Brown" <rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:19:44 -0500
- CC: Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, WMOR1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, misc, jrible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199707212158.OAA07679@well.com> (jax@well.com)
>>>>> "Jack" == Jack J Woehr <jax@well.com> writes:
Jack> Robert J. Brown said:
>> they scrapped all my work and are programming the thing in
>> assembler with 3 programmers to replace me. Seems so dumb,
>> since the cpu was designed to run threaded languages,
>> espectially Forth. Too bad too, because I had already enhanced
>> John's cross assembler, written an ANSI Forth cross compiler
>> based on e-Forth, and written a multitasker for the cpu core.
Jack> But of course, Robert. You demonstrated to them that
Jack> you were constructing a system only a genius could
Jack> comprehend and maintain, so they fired you and hired three
Jack> guys who were "pretty good".
Jack> I hope you weren't terribly surprised when it happened
Jack> :-)
Jack> - Jax
Would you like to see some of the code? I do not think it was
"genius-only" class code. Maybe to write it initially, but certainly
not to understand it. :-)
Of course, you too have been down this road as well...
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