Local Area Network (LAN): High-tech Cousin Of The Mainframe Nominally Designed To Allow People To Share Information And Snoop Into Personal Letters And Resumes Queued For The Laser Printer.

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Local Area Network (LAN):
High-tech cousin of the mainframe nominally designed to allow people
to share information and snoop into personal letters and resumes queued
for the laser printer. True rationale is to (a) sell hardware, and (b)
build data processing (DP) empires. When a DP operation runs smoothly,
it gets no attention from money-laden-management. LAN's purchased by
"technology visionaries" to "increase power and future capacity"
guarantee anomalous problems for years to come. Tech-terrified
managersare told that bonuses "to keep our valuable people" and more
hardware budget are the only solutions to the problems. Blackmail buys
electronic mail.

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