Thus it was written in the epistle of Trudeau, James L,
>
>         Jeez, unless you have a readily available "guru" maintain at least
>         some kind of support.  We go for months, a couple of times
>         over a year, without calling HPRC.  But when we do we *NEED* it.

I'll second that motion! :-).  I'm used to running Un*x and M$ boxes without
outside help, but I would never want to run a 3000 shop without HPRC access.
Is that because the 3000 is more complex or something?  No, it's because we
depend on it.  If the Un*x box goes down, it's a bit of an inconvenience and
frustration, if the M$ box goes down it's business as usual ;-), but if the
3000 goes down, we come to a grinding halt and I need answers fast.

By the by, very happy to see new passages from "the epistle of Trudeau" :-)!

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from
which one has recovered.
                        -- Poincare, Jules Henri (1854-1912)
[Whether or not he actually said this is a matter of debate amongst
historians of mathematics.]