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DIARY: July 16, 1991 08:02 PM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Called Morris re Medit compiler crashing; other fixes.

1...Summary/Objective
2...The real downside is that he has not caught on about how to link


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SUBJECTS
SDS Improvements
Medit, Compiler
Subject Index
Make new records/link
records

0607 -    ..
0608 - Summary/Objective
0609 -
060901 - Encountered compiler errors again, saying program has exceeded
060902 - something or other.  I reduced the few lines of code and it compiled
060903 - okay again.
060904 -
060905 - It compiles with the program at 89451 KB and
060906 -
060907 -               CMP                252550
060908 -               CMAC.ASM           437324
060909 -               CMAC.OBJ           222536
060910 -
060911 -
060912 - He has some ideas on how to fix this to increase the capacity.  I
060913 - suggested he could put macro 77 and 1181 in assembly and this would
060914 - likely save about 2 K on an interim basis.
060915 - ..
060916 - Maybe we will do it this weekend.
060917 -
060918 -
060919 -

SUBJECTS
Chips, Support
Subject Index
Make new records/link records
Learning period/difficulty
Convert Schedule to Diary, Conflicts
with Present Practice
Conflict with Existing Methods
Difficult to Understand
Knowledge Worker Communication Manager
Counterintutive Design Difficult Morris Not Converting Schedule Tasks

1713 - Progress
1714 -   ..
171401 - Follow up work ref SDS 1 0000, ref SDS 1 2736.
171402 -
171403 - Morris said he has not used SDS very much since he returned from his
171404 - trip.
171405 -
171406 - I made some suggestions on how to make greater use of SDS.
171407 - ..
171408 - He indicated there are about 100 items in the diary.  This
171409 - indicates he is trying to make use of it, which is the upside.
171410 -
171411 -    Turns out though that he has 100 items in the schedule, with the
171412 -    result that he is not converting planning tasks into Diary records,
171413 -    contrary to SDS design.
171414 - ..
171415 - The real downside is that he has not caught on about how to link
171416 - records, yet, ref SDS 1 2736, and he has not built a subject index
171417 - yet, due to time constraints.  This is why I should go down to his
171418 - office and create this stuff for him.
171419 -
171420 -         [This difficulty later led to concept of Communication
171421 -         Manager, because managers do not have enough time, ref SDS 6
171422 -         5821
171423 -
171424 -         [Morris would not try a Communication Manager to help him with
171425 -         SDS in 1995. ref SDS 7 8804]
171426 -
171427 -
171428 -
171429 -    I think the real problem here is that he is not converting
171430 -    scheduled tasks to diary records, and since a schedule task cannot
171431 -    be used to make a new task because theoretically nothing has
171432 -    happened until it is converted to a diary record, he cannot create
171433 -    any links.
171434 -
171435 -       [See favorable evaluation explaining SDS "breakthrough" design
171436 -       concept on 910810, ref SDS 4 7793.]
171437 -
171438 -       [Morris gave up on SDS on 911121, ref SDS 5 7420.]
171439 -
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1715 -