From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 9 Jul 93 16:43:54 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com !tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Admiral Tuttle Message-ID: <1993Jul9.164354.9986@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes: >p.s. The Model-T also follows the Navy paint paradigm: You can paint >your ship any color you want, as long as it's Battleship grey. The >Navy has recognized the benefits of standardization for both paint and >computer languages (e.g. CMS-2.) Uh, that's Haze Gray; battleship gray is something slightly different, and I don't believe it is in use anymore. And they don't *have* to be that color. I've served on white ones. The white ones are recognition by the Navy that sometimes function is more important than blindly following a standard. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.