I loved the old X-wing and TIE Fighter sims, but the specs of the craft contradicted any official LucasFilm technical info. Info that LucasFilm still holds to. The games were highly inaccurate. But they were fun. I don't know what Larry Holland was thinking, or why he didn't make the ships accurate. It's as if he kind of just made it up as he went along and didn't conform to the guidelines that were established. Every dev since has taken a page out of his book when it comes to technical stuff and hasn't checked it out for themselves.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.