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From: barry@confusion.ads.com (Barry Lustig)
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Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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In article <26543@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
	
	...
	
	Technology should be applied to advantage where appropriate, and
	engineers should have enough restraint not to put a microprocessor in
	every toaster oven they sell.
	...

I was in Macy's the other day.  In the kitchen gadget department I saw
the following label on one of the tosters:

	Microchip toasting technology.  Microprocessor temperature
	controlled.

Barry Lustig
Advanced Decision Systems	barry@ADS.COM