[TUHS] HP-UX

[Jon Steinhart]

Alan D. Salewski writes:
> On 2024-09-02 11:02:04, Brad Spencer <brad at anduin.eldar.org> spake thus:
> >Stuff Received <stuff at riddermarkfarm.ca> writes:
> >
> >> 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
>
> "Hourly Patches" is one of the names I heard in the small HP-UX shop

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