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Subject: Re: documentation reader
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Date: 20 Dec 90 20:17:34 GMT
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In article <32788.276F7FB5@stjhmc.fidonet.org>, Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes...
>Garth Dickie writes in a message to All
> 
>GD> Bill Johnston thinks this is a waste of my time; If I were are 
>GD> 'real developer' I would have enough memory, disk, speed, etc, 

Hey now! Just who the hell is Bill Johnston and why is he telling 
student programmers what to do?  

Sorry to waste bandwidth on this, but I couldn't find Mr. Dickie's original
posting which apparently paraphrases a suggestion I made via e-mail.
My correspondence with Mr. Dickie did not carry the sense of hardware
snobbery that the term <'real developer'> implies.  I am NOT a 'real
developer' and would never employ such a term in private e-mail or
on the front page of the Times.

My point to Mr. Dickie was that his creative efforts would be better
spent if he spent a few bucks on a memory upgrade.  It consistently
amazes me that creative people put such a high value on their $$$
and a low value on their time when making hardware decisions.
Good tools are well worth the investment!

>Jasmine was offering 70 ns RAM at $39.95 a meg as an advertising gimick. Look
>in this month's MacWorld.
> 
And getting cheaper all the time.

-- Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)