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[TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."

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Subject: [TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."
From: "Toby Pennington" <toby423@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 00:18:10 -0400
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Tommy W4BQF wrote.........I was a contributing member of the 
beta test group and that sad experience convinced me that Ten Tec 
would never get the firmware corrected. It wasn't back then and it 
isn't today...but at least you have a color screen.........

Someone mentioned to me that, " Ten Tec has badly mismanaged the software 
design task, and they have failed to maintain internal revision control and 
documentation, and the firmware is now a twisted road of undocumentated patces 
and fixes by many hands,  some of which are no longer around. " 

Perhaps someone could decipher this for me in plain words,  but it seems to 
indicate that TT could use some expert outside programming help.  

The same person I quoted above also said, "The Orion DSP code and control 
interface is really a pretty routine and light weight project for those that 
are familiar with this type of thing. There are hundreds of professional 
programmers that work every day with sound card and other audio DSP apps at the 
core level, and thousands of programmers that are very familiar with embedded 
user control hardware boxes that could knock out the necessary code in a few 
weeks from the ground up."  

Another rewrite of the code by some really good professionals?  Something to 
think about!

Toby  W4CAK  P.S.  Name of the quotee is being withheld to protect whats left 
of his sanity>>
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