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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: The "DEC" internal memo
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 17:19:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 17:19:15 1985
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I do not recall who posted it (I did not do it), but the excesses of

> 					John Williams
> 				Digital Equipment Corperation
> 					" Engineer "

call for a reply...

> 1) This memo is OLD! The problems it refers to have been 
> corrected for the past two years!

so what?

> 2) It is a case of ONE subdivision making mistakes, which 
> evidently WERE detected, and subsequently corrected.

that's what it said ... and so, you seem to believe it was true!

> This means we need to support our customers,

true

> and we have historically responded expediently to complaints.

false

> 3) This memo was strickly confidential.

if it was a real memo.  you said you didn't know if it was real.
i don't know if it was real.

> We answer to all complaints.

false (though irrelevant)

> 	Now, with your piece of outdated slander, concerning ONE 
> product that we had some initial problems with, you are 
> misleading everyone into thinking that we experience these 
> problems with all our products.

he misled everyone?  even you don't do that.  though, it's an
exceptional product that doesn't have such problems.  i'll bet
you write bug-free code too, eh?

> 	It was Digital who introduced the concept of "interactive",

i cannot guess whether digital was the first company whose marketers
discovered that some customers liked to hear the word "interactive"
... though i'm sure those marketers didn't know what "interactive"
meant until later ... but the concept was around before dec was founded.

> 	Engineer is a title that I am proud of, for it is the 
> engineer that brings matter into life, to extend man's sense and 
> intelligence. Technology is life, and the natural course of 
> evolution is to bring the universe to life.

well, a sparkling gem of truth buried under all the <rot-13>.  in that
case, why not also remember that engineers do make mistakes, and good
engineers correct mistakes while the rest of the world throws stones.

-- 

   Norman Diamond

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