al@crucible.uucp (Al Evans) (01/02/90)
Quoted from _Unix World_, November, 1989: "The grim reality is that every life ends with a death. Funeral homes exist to make that fact a little more tolerable. ... UNIX can help here, too. The Gordon Funeral Chapel, for instance, does much of its accounting on an AT class, multiuser machine running XENIX. ... ... For example, Gordon says his system has to be able to classify two kinds of customer, "at-need," those who are actually deceased, and "pre-need," those who have made arrangements for funerals while still living. Moreover, the system has to be able to convert one kind of customer to the other as the need arises...." --Al Evans-- (al@crucible.uucp or ...ssbn!inebriae!crucible!al) -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing. Remember: If you POST your joke instead of mailing it, I will not reply.