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On Sun, 13 Oct 96, "Sean T. Stevenson" <ststev@UV*.CA*> wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:09:06 -0700, gmiiii@in*.co* wrote:
>
>> If you buy the right stuff to start with, none of this is a problem. Get a
>>bottom timer and depth guage for $150, and a copy of DECOM software for $69.
>>That is all you need for any dive.
>
>Have you used Parrett's software? If so what did you think of it?
>
>-Sean
>
> Parrot's software, Abyss , is great. I have a copy, but it is a year old, so
I am sure he has added all kinds of things. I realy do not need software, but
I
do use them once in a while to check things.
The one thing you can say about our boy Parrot is that the bastard did his
homework, and proofed his software, instead of sending out some half-assed
piece
of shit like the rest of the people in the dive business do. Some of these
other
guys I wish I had had my hands on after an hour or so trying to fool some crash
test dummy's software into producing the right deco. You should see some of
the
silliness Gavin and I used to do to make software produce the correct pattern.
Some of these things are so stupid that they figure the same gas and depth
differently if you tell it you are at deco than if you tell it you are diving -
that is always a dead giveaway of somebady too stupid to be writing software,
yet with today's prebuilt software models, these geeks can play with only
rudimentary math skills.
>
-G
George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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