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From: boston@celerity.UUCP (Boston Office)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Scientific Computing and mips 
Message-ID: <352@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 10:36:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 10:36:05 1985
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In article <734@umd5.UUCP> zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) writes:
>In article <72@l5.uucp> laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>
>>Can I write a prototype first? Ooops, now we have a political problem.
>>Management says yes and then ships the prototype. You never get to do a
>>rewrite and you have to support the prototype. Pretty soon you give up
>>prototyping...
> 
>This is one of the advantages of working for a government agency and not for
>a private firm.  A lot less pressure for results yesterday. 

...or at all, from the way our taxes are being squandered.

>I suspect this
>has a *LOT* to do with the finest software coming from research labs (BTL)
>and from universities (BSD?).

This is a delusion.