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From: pratt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan Pratt)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 21 Apr 1996 20:03:59 -0700
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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In article <4k9tdu$pom@news2.cais.com>,
Michael Curry <mcgraw@cais.cais.com> wrote:
>
>Having worked in production environments, may I modify the above to read 
>"In a production environment, a problem qualifies as 'major'".

Evidently your production environment had an all-or-nothing view of what
constituted a problem.  I bet if it only affected one little customer
you could afford to lose you defined it not to be a problem.
-- 
Vaughan Pratt                        http://boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html
				     My every word is copyright, especially
				     those not in the dictionary.