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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: wasted cycles
Message-ID: <1988Nov17.165318.6268@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <978@hub.ucsb.edu> <16965@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1409@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <17088@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 16:53:18 GMT

In article <17088@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>Now the above is an extreme, but it illustrates a very very common at-
>titude among researchers when it comes to computers: "why think?"...

Unfortunately, it's not uncommon among writers of production software,
either.  A certain computer company whose name starts with S has a bit of a
reputation among its customers for its, uh, nonchalance about performance
and resource usage.  And the less said about the FSF, the better...
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