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From: aubrey@val.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is there no end to computer folklore?
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Date: 16 Mar 89 23:11:44 GMT
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Reply-To: aubrey@val.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh)
Organization: Video Associates Labs - Austin, TX
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A friend of mine, some 10 years ago, was working on what we now
call a PERT chart program for his companies manufacturing group
up in Dallas.

He believed the program ready to face the world, and went out
to manufacturing to get "real data."  The actual data was for
some hot project due to a customer in 4 or 6 months.

After setting everything up, he came up with the result that
the current activity was critical, and had to be finished some
months in the past.  After days of digging through his code,
he got pencil and paper.  

Boy were they behind!

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