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From: pcguido@ibm.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! (So What's your point?)
Date: 17 Feb 1995 05:33:32 GMT
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In <3i0sol$68q@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>, lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) writes:
||
||: >If you knew much about the history of PQ, you'd realize
||: >that it grew up in Japan (ironically, the idea was sold to the Japanese
||: >by an American, who went there after American companies ignored him. Sorry,
||: >don't remember his name).
||
|In article <1995Feb16.082656.4410@surfcty.surfcty.com> chris@surfcty.surfcty.com (Chris D. Johnston) writes:
||It was Dr. Demming.  He had this neat idea regarding Just In Time (JIT).
|   I believe the term you are looking for, rather than Just In Time,
|   is TQM or Total Quality Management.  A term paid lipservice to
|   by all MBA's even though this violates everything Deming taught.
|

Sheesh!

Forum Drift is bad enough; but, now it's Topic Drift in the
Forum Drift! What's up guys, been cast adrift?

Please don't send these posts to every News Group you can
manage to spell, OK? Linux is great in the LINUX forums...


Phil "Guido" Cava
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