Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:20:58 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <9eb45192-e996-fa3d-b002-c02798bb2b7a@example.net> <7e375fa6-9dad-927b-ebcb-898b6adafc00@example.net> <998225ad-dc63-23f8-4e4b-92e76ec29636@example.net> <0186e59b-8801-2a6a-c38c-dc4bbddc86cc@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2801646"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62380 On Sat, 13 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:36 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> I once had a boss like that. When dealing with users' unreasonable >> requests, >> his vocabulary contained a word that is not often found: "No." He drove >> a VW Beetle, rather than the obligatory management-style luxury car, >> which raised him several notches in my estimation. > > In the first company I worked for the owner/president drove a Lincoln. The > rumor was the VP would have dearly loved a Cadillac but carefully stayed > one step downscale. > > At a start up the president drove a Camaro. The first few years were lean > but when we finally started making money he bought a Cadillac Cimmarron, > which was their attempt to compete with the more compact European luxury > sedans. It had problems but the final straw was when his secretary bought > a Pontiac. It was pretty much the same J-body car GM used throughout its > product line. > > Next up was a Mercedes, I forget which flavor. Keeping with the times it > was a diesel. For someone used to a Camaro the snail like acceleration > didn't cut it. He wasn't happy and when his son tried to fill it up with > gasoline that was it for the Merc. > > Finally he bought a Lincoln Town Car. In his words, 'If I'm going to be > nigger rich I'm going to do it right!' That one was a keeper. > > The owner of the company I currently work for drives some sort of > nondescript older Toyota SUV with rear quarter panel damage patched > together by the maintenance guy with duct tape. Sounds like a good man! You should keep him! ;)