From: "John Beamish" 

In the old NCR Century machines (16K expandable to 32 or, even, 64K) --
which we used to run a $10,000,000 company (back when a million was worth a
million) "graceful degradation" was called "monitor
limp-along" mode.



On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:00:01 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:e1ifp2lm90aogug0ae3pb1b1213upgc563{at}4ax.com...
>
>> So you're saying that Microsoft is continuing to use the same design
>> paradigm of quiet failure, but elevating it to new aggravations.
>
> I believe the term is "gracefully degrade" as opposed to how things
> normally degrade all on their own.. 
>
> Geo.

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