one-banana problem
At mainframe shops, where the compute RS have operato RS for routine chefistrivia, the programme RS and hardware people tend to look down on the operato RS and claim that a trained monkey could do their job. It is frequently observed that the incentives that would be offered said monkeys can be used as a scale to describe the difficulty of a task. A one-banana problem is simple hence, "It' s only a one-banana job at the most what' s taking them so long?" At IBM, folklore divides the world into one-, two-, and three-banana problems. Other cultures have different hierarchies and may divide them more finely at ICL, for example, five grapes (a bunch) equals a banana. Their upper limit for the in-house sysapes is said to be two bananas and three grapes (another source claims it' s three bananas and one grape, but observes "However, this is subject to local variations, cosmic rays and ISO"). At a complication level any higher than that, one asks the manufacture RS to send someone around to check things. See also Infinite-Monkey Theorem. [ Jargon File] In addition suitable contents: [ = ] [ chef ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ archie ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ banana problem ] [ be ] [ bj ] [ bs ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ ck ] [ CL ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ com ] [ computer ] [ cosmic rays ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ diff ] [ do ] [ down ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ equals ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ fact ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ finite ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ frame ] [ gh ] [ gr ] [ gs ] [ h ] [ hardware ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hop ] [ hr ] [ IBM ] [ IC ] [ ICL ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ iff ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ int ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ IS ] [ is ] [ ISO ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ jo ] [ job ] [ ke ] [ key ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lk ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mainframe ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ ms ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ nf ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ operator ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ programmer ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ routine ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ serve ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sk ] [ sm ] [ SO ] [ so ] [ source ] [ st ] [ su ] [ subject ] [ sy ] [ sysape ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tw ] [ ua ] [ up ] [ us ] [ va ] [ var ] [ ve ] [ vi ]
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