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Sun, 21 May 2000 20:10:36 +0100
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Those are the days in a small business you can get away with,
"Acchh, I vas only following orders, Herr General."

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Dorman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Hi y'all,
>
> Over the years, I have been amused by how the technical
> aspect of processor queue assignment has gotten confused
> with the emotional aspects of a particular job/task.  Quite
> a number of times I have found people insisting that a job
> had to be "put into the highest queue because it was important!"
> What would be un-stated is the thought that the assigned queue
> somehow conferred moral value and emotional importance to the task
> being process by the computer.  By assigning it to a lower queue,
> the task would somehow be diminished in importance.
>
> Chip Dorman

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