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From: jxyp@beta.UUCP (Jay Plett)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: sampling software (was: lotus chairman makes 26 million)
Message-ID: <18388@beta.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 04:26:06 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <319@mipseast.mips.COM>, rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
> When you buy a car, you can rfead all the rags, read the documentation,
> test-drive it... but you can't take three or four of them home for a month
> or so until you decide which one you want, then give the others back...

I've never bought a car without first taking a demonstrator home overnight.
I haven't done it, but I wouldn't hesitate to take 3 or 4 home overnight
(one per night) if that's what it took to find one that 'fits'.
Of course, I wouldn't expect to keep one longer.  If 24 hours with the car
didn't satisfy me, I would rent one, or borrow a friend's.  I've satisfied
myself from experience that I can successfully evaluate a car in 24
hours.  And I've learned from experience that none but trivial software
can be evaluated in less than a week.