Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/12/84; site zeus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!tektronix!teklds!zeus!bobr From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: revenge of the word processor Message-ID: <427@zeus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 19:41:34 EST Article-I.D.: zeus.427 Posted: Wed Dec 5 19:41:34 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:51:04 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 35 [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