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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: revenge of the word processor
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 19:41:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 19:41:34 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:51:04 EST
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[From The New Yorker]

  "Controlling  a  plant,"  says   Theodore   J.
Willaims,  a  researcher  at  Purdue University,
"takes a  wider  attention  span  than  any  one
person   could  possibly  have."    But  with  a
distributed computer system, Mr. Williams added,
"You    can   increase  profitability,  increase
productivity, reduce raw  materials  and  reduce
emission,   because   the   computer  system  is
flexible, process, rather than an entire  plant.
The system is flexible, allowess, rather than an
entire plant. The system is  flexible,  allowing
anather  than  an  entire  plant.  The system is
flexible, allowing an operator  to  rearrange  a
manufacturing  process  from  his  seat  at  the
console.  "If you change your mind," said Robert
E.  Otto, a technical consultant at the Monsanto
Co., "you don't have to  rewire,  you  can  just
reprogram."

And because the systhe central  computer.   Then
if  somthing  goes wrong ing back to the central
computer.  The if something goes wrong ing  back
to the central computer.  Then if something goes
wrong wit back to the central computer.  Then if
something  goes  wrong  with  the main cocentral
computer.  Then if something goes wrong with the
main  control l computer.  Then if somthing goes
wrong with the main control room, your plant  is
O.K." --Palm Springs (Calif.) Desert Sun.

  Want to bet?
-- 
Robert Reed, Logic Design Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr