HAL must die!

[Robert Huff]

Erich Dollansky writes:

>  > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
>  > choose from.
>  
>  when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA -
>  metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ... 
>  
>  We do not care much who manufactured them.
>  
>  The software industry is still far away from this.

	... in part, because the definition of a "screw" is not yet
fixed.


			Robert Huff