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Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:
>> JMF wanted his business cards to say, "Have EDDT, Will Travel".  I put
>> it one his gravestone.  If TW, JMF and I had decided to quit DEC the
>> first time TOPS-10 was cancelled, the "Have EDDT.."  would have been
>> our motto.
>
> year after I had 2hr intro to programming, univ. hired me fulltime to be
> responsible for ibm mainframe production systems (academic as well as
> administration). I hated bugs, getting calls to fix something
> ... sometimes in the middle of the night ... other times when i was
> concentrating on some extremely complex progamming ... with regarding to
> interrupting concentration ... from "Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche"
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31 High Level Language Systems was
Re: computer books/authors (Re: FA:

I would go into work at 04:00 so I could get at least 4 hours of no
stupid interruptions.  Part of my job was to deal with interruptions
so that the other developers didnt' get bothered with the small stuff.
the people who didn't want to "bother" JMf or TW wree the ones
who had real problems and needed to bother them.  I'd set up a
meeting in JMF's or TW's office and escort the guy there.  I'd
introduce them and stay until I figured that the guy needing
help didn't need mine anymore.


>
> Real Programmers never work 9 to 5.  If any Real Programmers are
> around at 9 AM, it's because they were up all night.

Not in our shop.  Those programmers leave before the machines have
to be booted up for timesharing (and they could avoid management). :-)

>
> ... aka offshift work frequently minimizes interrupts. My adversing to
> bugs got worse when bugs became utilized for exploits ... led to last
> product at IBM was HA/CMP ... no single point of failure ...  and "fail
> safe" ... past posts

And then there are those "asspects" which aren't really bugs but
shouldn't be there anyway.  (The spelling was intentional.)

> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
> some related posts in C language related bugs&exploits
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
> and "availability" related posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
>
> as aside, I thot something other than contact on business cards had no
> point, tried hard to have it left blank ... then was told that there was
> corporate standard that something had to be there ... then would just
> have "staff member" ... as innoxious and meaningless as possible.
>
> the other was we were first to have corporate internet email address
> ... and then csnet (arpanet/internet) email address.  Then corporate
> said that business cards were only for customer contact information and
> email addresses had to be removed. We pointed out that met then that it
> also applied to internal "tieline" phone number ...  which would also
> have to be removed ... and csnet email could remain. old email
> about being first with csnet gateway (also arpanet, 1982, slightly
> before internetworking change over)
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
> and
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#email821022

We had to have business cards, too.  It was a sign of being a
"grown-up".  I just put mine in my desk and forgot about them.
When Palmer became CEO, he tried to destroy anything that had
to do with KO, no matter what the cost.  One of the stupidest
things Palmer edicted was that the color of the business cards
had to change from the DEC blue to burgandy.  Every salaried
person was forced to order 1000 new business cards.

>
> more topic drift ... internetworking TCP/IP transition, from csnet
> liaison
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email821230
> and
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email830202
>
> I did go through a period putting random zippy at end of email
> ... also added selection from 6670 file ... recent reference
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#103 1956 -- circuit reliability book
>
> and now just stay with the following static.

I never used mine.  I assumed nobody was interested.

/BAH

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