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Subject:RDBMS Information Systems From:DAVID IBBETSON <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 8 Jun 1996 21:56:20 -0400
Charles Cantrell writes:
>For example, a service tech needing
>to repair a machine would be able to pull up the particular service
>procedure on-line from the control of that machine.
The fault may directly or indirectly make this impossible, or may lead to
misleading information being given.
A personalised CD ROM, perhaps kept with the machine, is a possibility. The
same problem arises any self-test facility. The fault, or a separate fault,
may have compromised it.
David (the idiot) Ibbetson
David Ibbetson, Ontario, Canada ibbetson -at- idirect -dot- com
When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh things not to
be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipped, and yet they
rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place --- Ecclesiasticus
XIV, xxii
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