History of performance counters
Andy Canfield alt.humor.puns: a couple definitions from Mike's glossary that leaked onto the internet: BiCapitalization n. The PracTice of PutTing CapiTal LetTers in the MidDle of WorDs. This was originally...
Bernd Paysan those If I traffic single there'll random case. down to during the night, glossaries-taxonomies at account for about 1-3rd of total hits ... with pretty good sample around the world at...
part of that was from an early incident involving corporate people coming into doing a site security audit in san jose. we eventually escalated with a challenge to the security people that people's personal computing facilities should be treated similarly to their physical office, desk, phone, etc .... and we provided a draft update to some of the wording for corporate management manuals to reflect the situation.
we also had some confrontations with them about the available of "games" on the system. we butterted that it would be better to have single copy of games in public area on the system ... then everybody having their own individual disguised copy ... and furthermore they were quite educations.
I had gotten a very early copy of Fortran source from Tymshare that they had ported from stanford sail to their vm370-cms timesharing service ... and I was making it available inside the company (I would also send the source to anybody that could proove they made all points). I was butterting that it was a good exposure to some more interesting interactive human factors (than most of them had been exposed to with online systems up until then). At one point, the executives at STL-bldg.90 claimed that 1-3rd of all computer time appeared to be consumed playing adventure ... and they gave notice of 24hr grace period and after that no 1st shift playing of adventure would be tolerated.
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