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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what the technology can deliver. With computer software in particular it is easy to turn an idea for a program into a prototype that works well enough to demonstrate to potential customers, and then quickly announce it to get a jump on competitors. But before any product can be released, it may require months of refining, reworking and retesting. Hiring more programmers to speed up the job often makes matters worse. As Brooks put it, "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned...
...everyone thinks that Wizard of Oz products are bad. "There's nothing wrong with vaporware," says Daniel Bricklin, co-author of VisiCalc. Bricklin believes prototypes were crucial to that product's eventual success. "With VisiCalc," he says, "nobody knew what I was talking about until I wrote the program." To spare others that inconvenience, he has created something he calls Dan Bricklin's Demo Program, which enables a software developer to construct a convincing demonstration even if the software has not yet been written. Bricklin calls his product "a vaporware generator." But it is not quite ready for market...
...where the starchy aroma suggests tons of boiling pasta. The current president, Gerardo Ronza, is a grandnephew of Gerardo di Nola, who founded the company in 1870. A slender, precise man who lives in an antiques-filled apartment over the factory, Ronza savors the lore and history of his product. Everything made downstairs, he explains, comes under the heading of pasta ascuitta, the dried forms...
...paste is then extruded through bronze bar molds pierced with openings to produce the desired shape. For the long strands of pasta that have holes in the center (so they will cook more evenly), the paste is forced through ring-shaped openings around center cores that make the final product hollow...
...more than the current 70 cents to $1.10 per lb. of imported pasta. According to Max Busetti of the National Pasta Association, in Arlington, Va., it is the principle that counts. "Naturally, the Italians are incensed about the tariffs," Busetti says. "For them, it is such an emotional product, especially in the wake of recent strains. The increase was on the front pages of all Italian newspapers the day after there were pictures of Craxi and Reagan mending fences following the Achille Lauro affair...