See Figure 1
Stephen Friedl
> I wish I could remember who sent this to me, and when they did,
> but I don't. :( So see figure 1. :)
> AT&T Customer Service Memorandum
> Please stop submitting compliants. This is our system.
I am sure that I created this in 1986 or so. I had seen one for
"VMS Version 3" in the very same format, and decided that AT&T needed
one as well. I was with an AT&T VAR back then, and most of the things
that this little memorandum mentions are no longer the case: you can
get ksh now, they really do support the math chip very nicely, and the
data techs that have supported my customers and me have been first-rate
(Hi Larry Duffy!).
Stephen
P.S. - You AT&T management types that got hot the last time this
was posted can definitely see Figure 1. Lighten up, OK?
Stephen J Friedl | Software Consultant | Tustin, CA | +1 714 544 6561
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Tom Perrine
(Mike Bray) writes:
> I wish I could remember who sent this to me, and when they did, but I
> don't. :( So see figure 1. :)
Well, well, well. Figure 1 returns! I first encountered this diagram
and text in a Honeywell internal memo, For the Honeywell CP-6 Release
B03 HOST Software Release Bulletin, in 1982. The diagram is almost
exactly the same, and some of the text is identical:
The first paragraph is identical. So is most of the one on options.
The rest of the Honeywell memo is just as funny. Naw, its funnier. If
you don't think so, or you want me to type it all in, See Figure 1.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Eric Woudenberg
(Bryan Lockwood) writes:
> I wonder if the guy who originally wrote this will be writing to the
> fellow who rewrote it, telling him to (see Figure 1)?
The original (for VAX/VMS) was written by Herb Jacobs, who was at DEC
at the time. He showed it to me when we worked together at Alliant.
It really is pretty funny ... someone should post it.
Eric Woudenberg
Mike Whitaker
amateur operatics society -- it was a detailed exposition of the
response you were likely to get from the actors, the techies, the
director.
Mike Whitaker - mi...@sdl.mdcbbs.com
Jeff Hibbard
> Ah. I recall seeing this a LONG time ago. But the version I saw had
> to do with the VAX VMS operating system, rather than with AT&T.
> Well, well, well. Figure 1 returns! I first encountered this diagram
> and text in a Honeywell internal memo, For the Honeywell CP-6 Release
> B03 HOST Software Release Bulletin, in 1982.
I also first saw this in the early-to-mid 80's, but it was on Control
Data Corporation letterhead of the type normally used to distribute
information about software problems. The diagram and some of the text
is identical, only the version I saw was longer and funnier.
I wonder if we'll ever know who wrote the original.
Jeff Hibbard, Peoria IL
[Moderator's Note: 'Figure 1' is like so many of those stories which
get passed around from one office to the next with copies made on the
copy machine in each office it reaches until finally everyone who sees
it has a copy of a copy of a copy; no one knows for sure who put it
out, and everyone who sees it changes it a little to meet
circumstances in their company, etc. PAT]
Roger Roles
started. He said that he wrote the version for VMS version 3 after
seeing a version written for TOPS-10, and that he credited the author
of the TOPS-10 version in his. His copy is buried in his files
somewhere, but he said that if he ran across it he would send me a
copy. If that happens in the near future, I will think about typing it
in.
r...@alliant.com, alliant!rdr Roger D. Roles