[TUHS] HP-UX

[Peter Yardley]

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 at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

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Peter Yardley
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