"F. Alfredo Rego" wrote:
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >Upgrade HPUX 10.20 to 11.0       ->  12 man-days
> >Upgrade MPE/iX 5.5 to 6.0pp2     ->   3 man-hours

> For those who might have missed it: Jeff compares 12 vs. 3, BUT
> he is not using the same units, out of generosity :-)
>
> When ruthlessly normalizing the units, the numbers look like this:
> Upgrade HPUX 10.20 to 11.0       ->  288 human-hours
> Upgrade MPE/iX 5.5 to 6.0pp2     ->    3 human-hours

Actually I was counting shifts, so it's only a 96:3 comparison :-)

> Life is too precious to be squandered with wasteful computer-related
> stuff.  It would be a crime to keep these numbers as a well-kept
> secret.  How many hikes (or, rather, deep-sea dives) could Jeff
> have done instead?

Instead, I'm still worrying about our 9000 (our ill-fated Nike FC30 blew
yet *another* controller yesterday morning), but Richard opted
to follow-up on that service call while I did the 3000 update (and I
may yet get called upon for that one too, depending on the CE's
results).  My plans were to get a fullback at 5:30 and start about
9:00, so I went home from work to take a quick nap.  When I got back
I was caught in the cross-fire of the 9000 callbacks, so really couldn't
start until about 9:30.  I got home about 1:00 this morning
after commute time and zapped a couple of SL segments (local code)
before writing that message.

So, if not for the 9000, I would likely be hiking up Signal Point, a
civil war park on the Cumberland trail, just northwest of here.  The
diving would be an all-weekend thing, and I have only been able to
squeeze one trip in for that since the 9000 came on the scene.

Jeff