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From: francisr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Steven P. Jobs reality distortion field?
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In article <1991Apr21.202955.18034@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>In article <1991Apr21.060729.21077@rick.cs.ubc.ca> h5346866@rick.cs.ubc.ca (bradley don head) writes:
>The thing that I found most striking about the article was Ms. Pitta's
>lack of knowledge of technical information.  Namely  this line:
>	
>	"Yet the NeXT ... still uses an off-the-shelf Motorola processor
>	 rather than a more powerful reduced-instruction-set processor
>	 of the sort Sun puts in its workstations."
>
>Off-the-shelf?  Please, sounds like you can go to Radio-Shack, or a
>hardware store and pick one of these puppies up. (Please no flames
>about Radio Shack...it just seems a defacto standard to pick on).  In
>anycase I'd hardly call an '040 chip in the manner.  She makes it
>sound like a chip used to control a microwave, or toy airplane.
...
The line that convinced me I should trust Ms. Pitta's article was:

    "J.D. Salinger wrote _Catcher_in_the_Rye, but what else has he
     done?"
(-:

9 short Stories?
Franny and Zooey?
Raise High the RoofBeam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction?

This is comp.sys.next.literary.favorites, isn't it?

Rob