Engineers, including computer types, do tend to have a narrow viewpoint -- that their description or solution is the only possible one. They also love to use acronymic terms, partially because they are used to them and sometimes to confuse general management people. In my consulting days, I always told management clients to deal with engineers and computer people the same way they do all others; ask them if they can do a specific thing and how much it will cost in time and money. Actually, anything you can do with paper and pencil can be done by the computer -- but sometimes you may not want to spend that extra high dollar amount to achieve a minor result.

All four of my cars, with minor variation, run 2700 to 2800 rpms at 70 MPH --
on a fairly level interstate highway ... two of them are sixes (the 230S and the ML320) and two are V8's (420SEL and Corvette). I do wonder why a 190E runs at such high rpms at that speed, but am not familiar with the car and engine.

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Ben Harrison Carter
1999 Mercedes ML320 87K
1992 Mercedes 300CE 89K
1995 Corvette 29K -- Sold Dec 09
1989 Mercedes 420SEL 99K -- (Sold 4/08)
1968 Mercedes 230S (106K) (Sold 9/06))
1976 Mercedes 450SEL 130K (Just sold - 06)
1961 Mercedes 220Sb (sold years ago)