The practice of referring to "problems" as "issues" began during the
early minicomputer days, when disk drives were both small and
expensive. The cumulative saving of two bytes per instance was
significant, given the rate of occurence.
Note that disk drive manufacturers continued to use "problems", or
even "suboptimal results".
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Bill Aycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Forgive the intrusion from a non-expert (in both CW and other
digital
> modes), but what seems to me to be an obvious Characteristic of
many
> digital modes is being ignored where CW is being placed in
comparison.
>
> Most (ALL?) the newer digital modes are being both decoded and
encoded
> by rigid, well timed, well defined systems, on both ends of any
> information transfer. In contrast, most of the comparisons with CW
> (Usually to CWs detriment) are to transfers with Human talents on
one
> end or the other. It is no wonder that the flaws inherent
in "imperfect"
> timing causes problems.
>
> If CW were both sent and received using the perfect timing of
> computers, it would allow Humans to decode, "on the side" as it
were.
>
> The newer digital modes all have the advantage of having the
timing
> "frozen" in place, allowing the decoding problem to eliminate one
> troublesome problem
> .
> Try evening the playing field this way, in some of the comparisons.
>
> Bill-W4BSG
>
> PS- why is every problem now called an "issue"? Has Microsoft
overcome
> our language that much?
>
> --
> Bill Aycock W4BSG
> Woodville, Alabama
>
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