Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <3117@phri.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 02:37:30 GMT
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In <3186@briar.Philips.Com> rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson) writes:
> i've seen alot of executives with pc's [...] most don't know how to
> use them.  many are just used as status symbols

	And not just PC's.  Around here, the status symbol is having a
Sun-3/50 on your desk.  We have a number of them, allocated to individual
researchers in some manner, the logic of which escapes me.  We have one
particular person who demanded (for no good reason) and got a Sun but, to
the best of my knowledge, rarely even turns it on.  When statistics once
showed that person and that Sun way at the bottom of the usage statistics
an attempt was made to reallocate the hardware to where it might be used
better.  Not a chance.  Oh well, at least the cpu cycles don't go to waste;
little does this person know just how many big troff jobs get run on that
machine via rlogins.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016