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Funnily enough, I worked for IBM marketing (my first job, for a short while) in 1984. One of our jobs was to demo System/36 - one of IBM's minis - which might
by klelatti 4y ago
Funnily enough, I worked for IBM marketing (my first job, for a short while) in 1984.
One of our jobs was to demo System/36 - one of IBM's minis - which might have been replaced by an 801 system had they taken it up.
One of my colleagues went through the demo with a room of customers. At the end he asked for questions. Straight away a hand went up.
"If it's this slow with one user, how slow is it with five?"
Sometimes engineering does know best!