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To further nit-pick, Dell is a systems integrator, they do not really have
programmers.  :->  Not at the same level that HP and IBM have programmers.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   toback2 [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, 21 July, 1998 1:59 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: (OFF TOPIC) Three Programmers

Jeff Vance relates what presumably is an experience at Comdex:

>     Three male programmers were in the bathroom standing
>     at the uninals.
>
>     The first programmer finishes... [and] says, "At IBM, ..."
>
>     The second programmer finishes... and says, "At Dell..."
>
>     The third programmer finished and walks straight for the door,
>     shouting over his shoulder:   " At HP, we don't piss on our hands."

What should we make of the fact that the HP programmer was shouting into
an empty bathroom?

-- Bruce


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