3 Sep
2024
3 Sep
'24
1:41 a.m.
This is a joke I remember about the HP way …
https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/hp.lunch.htm
On 3 Sep 2024, at 3:44 AM, Jon Steinhart
<jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Alan D. Salewski writes:
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Peter Yardley
peter.martin.yardley(a)gmail.com
On 2024-09-02 11:02:04, Brad Spencer
<brad(a)anduin.eldar.org> spake thus:
My view of HP radically changed in the late 1980s as the result of
bidding on a contract. I got a call from the marketing person with
whom I was working who was laughing so hysterically that it took a
while to get the story.
It all comes down to the "HP Way".
She went in to pitch our proposal to a room full of guys. A some
point one of them started pounding his fist on the table saying
"No no no no no. You just don't grasp the HP-ness of it." It was
a testament to her skill that she managed to keep a straight face.
That's what it's been to me ever since. The HP-ness.
Jon Stuff Received <stuff(a)riddermarkfarm.ca>
writes:
"Hourly Patches" is one of the names I heard in the small HP-UX shop On 2024-08-31 15:30, Larry McVoy wrote (in
part):
> Not so much on hockey pucks.
New term to me -- I had always heard it called "H-Pox".
S.
Heavily Patched was what we called it at Lucent in the group I was in.
--
Brad Spencer