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From: brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: A slightly different topic...
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 01:50:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 01:50:20 1986
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> Businesses use cost accounting procedures to help them allocate
> scarce resources in the most efficient manner.

_Business_ is NOT about "allocating scarce resources" - it is about
making resources profitably less scarce.  Cost accounting is one tool
that can be used to optimize certain aspects of the business.

> Big computers are scarce and expensive resources.

Not scarce enough if they are still used in significant numbers in
the earlier stages of CS education.  Big computers are needed to
solve big problems.  Little computers are much better for little
problems.  Perhaps it's more important to impress people than teach them.

> Well...that's too many words about a tiny topic.

Agreed, and now twice too many.