Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-rsc!crick From: crick@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Bill Crick) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: software analogy Message-ID: <777@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 21:26:45 GMT References: <891@taux01.UUCP> <650004@hpclscu.HP.COM> <9443@cup.portal.com> <13744@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: crick@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Bill Crick) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 14 A better anology is to music. The software is the sheet music, and the computer is the band or orchestra. Now: A rock band can't play music written for an orchestra because it doesn't have 1st,snd and 3rd violins. Nor does it have an oboe? An orchestra couldn't play country music arangments: no steel guitar! Rock band playing bluegrass? no bango! However it is possible to go back to th original melody (the source) and write an arangement for the "band you've got" (re-compile). The song may not sound exactly the same! but this is how you hear Beatles music on Elevator Musac! simple! no?