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In <43rt5b$f5i@news.duke.edu>, Dave Briggman <paradigm@mercury.interpath.net> writes:
>One of the departments I am contracting for has a fourth year EE who 
>doesn't know what formatting a hard drive does and doesn't know what the 
>operating system of a computer does for the computer...yet he's going to 
>be designing microchips - makes sense huh? Most ten year olds know what 
>that does - my daughter knew when she was five - as do most children 
>nowadays.

actually the ability to design microchips does not necessitate much knowledge
of current operating systems. your statement would have been only slightly
more invalid if you chastised this EE for not knowing how to uuencode a
zip file.

as mankind progresses towards more complicated and powerful technology
it becomes increasingly important to specialize; otherwise we impede progress.
certainly at some point in development (project-wise, not time-wise) someone
most manage the meshing of hardware and software, but not every electrical
engineer involved.

aloha
dav coleman

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