January 2001

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HP Insight: Back to basics

I could not help but draw a comparison between problems encountered in the U.S. presidential election and several interesting issues confronting the hydrocarbon processing industry. Not..

Hartmann, H. C. M., Consultant

I could not help but draw a comparison between problems encountered in the U.S. presidential election and several interesting issues confronting the hydrocarbon processing industry. Notably, existing techniques are only challenged when one involved party believes this will benefit its special interest. Once seriously contested, outdated procedures may appear fully inconsistent with the changing environment and fall precariously short of present requirements. In the presidential election, this fate befell the old 1960, Holerith-based IBM machines. At the specialist level, the machine / system problems should have been com

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