UNIX Arcana [was Re: Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually) ]

[Jerry Feldman]

The whole reason BK went to the POS:
Punch Whopper key, Punch Coke key, punch total, punch change. 
There was absolutly no direct access to the 8. 
Ct. was a real probnlem because we had to collect both sales and meals tax 
depending on the item, AND, the tax tables depended on the number of people 
in the part. We had to go up to 8K for Ct. 
On 22 Aug 2002 at 11:06, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> You know, I just heard someone complaining that the quaility of 
> "service" people has taken a drastic drop in the last 20-30 years.
> I guess if, to work for Burger King inthe 1970s you needed to be able 
> to operate a PDP-8 class machine you'd have to be a whole lot smarter 
> than those "touch screen monkeys" they have now-a-days, which 
> explains why QoS at the burger joints has gone down hill ;)
> -- 

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