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| 2715.1 | Haven't seen it, though... | SWAM2::BARNETTE_NE | Try THAT on your MAC, Daddy! | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:32 | 4 |
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I would guess that the reference is to the number of people who
(potentially) provide support to Alpha, not the number of Digital
employees world-wide.
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| 2715.2 | Sounds like an inside joke | TLE::RALTO | | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:32 | 7 |
| >> "With over 40,000 professionals in 475 locations worlwide, Digital..."
>>
>> Do the authors of these brochures know something we don't?
Sure... the rest of us are unprofessional! :-)
Chris
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| 2715.3 | These are field-based personnel | LACGID::BIAZZO | DECvp - Highest Unit Volume Product | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:36 | 5 |
| Whenever these numbers are thrown around, they mean field-based personnel ie
Sales, Sales Support, MCS
It doesn't include engineering, marketing, HR, corporate, etc.
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| 2715.4 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:55 | 2 |
| Reminds me of Ken's alleged answer to the question of how many people worked
at Digital. "About half."
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| 2715.5 | nedd a spelllcheck!! | HYLNDR::POLTRACK | SQOIS ZKO1-1 | Thu Oct 14 1993 17:26 | 5 |
| Does the copy really say:
worlwide???
Seems like they failed in spelling also!
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| 2715.6 | | STAR::ABBASI | only 62 days left to graduate | Thu Oct 14 1993 17:31 | 16 |
| ref .-1
>Seems like they failed in spelling also!
let them use DECspell, it served me right through the many years
of use with no serious problems to report.
i think commercial people should pay allot of attention to spelling
mistakes because thousands a bone thousands of people will see
it and it reflects the image of our corporation to the world that
is why it is very sensitive issue.
\nasser
who_uses_DECspell_on_reqular_basis_without_a_hitch_or_a_hiss
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| 2715.7 | I mispelled worldwide, but not the 40,000... | EPAVAX::EPAPC1::CARLOTTI | Rick, DTN 440-7229 | Thu Oct 14 1993 19:27 | 1 |
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| 2715.8 | | MU::PORTER | cool runnings | Fri Oct 15 1993 14:11 | 3 |
| > i think commercial people should pay allot of attention to spelling
But they should allot some attention to grammar, too.
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| 2715.9 | i agree with \Dave | STAR::ABBASI | only 62 days left to graduate | Fri Oct 15 1993 14:37 | 13 |
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>But they should allot some attention to grammar, too.
excellent point \Dave, i forgot to say that.
spelling and grammar seems so entwined , can't have one without the other.
it is even more important to our marketing and commercial folks for
the same reasons i elaborated at in my earlier notes.
good observation !.
\bye
\nasser
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| 2715.10 | Points of spelling and grammar | TNPUBS::PHALEN | | Tue Oct 19 1993 18:36 | 7 |
| If spelling and grammar are at issue, may I point out that
"a lot," meaning a quantity of something, as in "a lot of
work" is two words, not one. "Allot" is a verb, meaning "to distribute by lot,
to apportion or to allocate," as in "We allotted three weeks for the task."
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| 2715.11 | | STAR::ABBASI | only 57 days to graduate! | Tue Oct 19 1993 18:38 | 14 |
| .10
>If spelling and grammar are at issue, may I point out that
>"a lot," meaning a quantity of something, as in "a lot of
>work" is two words, not one. "Allot" is a verb, meaning "to distribute
>by lot,to apportion or to allocate," as in "We allotted three weeks for the
>task."
good point.
i agree too.
\nasser
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