Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!knuth!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: MINIX Message-ID: <00676870094@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> Date: 14 Jun 91 03:28:14 GMT References: <1991May29.083303.18799@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <1991May30.211409.307@swbatl.sbc.com> Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home Lines: 31 From article , by hunter@bacchus.esa.oz.au (James Gardiner [Hunter]): > In <1991May30.211409.307@swbatl.sbc.com> jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444) writes: >>released. If it can be done, Matt can do it. > > Gee. When and where is the statue of MATT going to be shown to the public. > I imagin it will be a life sized statue of Matt. An amiga A4000 in one arm > and the World in the other. Would probably be places in the reception > or the head office of Commodore..... Plans have been held up. The sculptor has been unable to find anybody who remembers what Matt looks like. One pundit suggests simply carving the back of a head staring at a computer screen. There is also the question of the keyboard to be depicted in the sculpture. Matt's turbocharger-enhanced keyboard presents problematic artistic questions, in that it makes the computer more resemble the underhood of a '67 Mustang than a computing device, and it would be problematic to have the figure actually HOLD the keyboard. As I hear it, they are actively soliciting slogans to be emblazoned upon the base of the statue. As I don't know Matt, I haven't entered any of my own choices into the contest. Slogans currently under consideration are typical statue sloganry type things, such as "Matt Dillon, World's Best Programmer" and the such. Others suggest that such slogans don't adequately represent the level of Matt's ability and are bland besides, but they have had trouble finding more laudatory adjectives. However, they are currently searching through the latest unabridged Webster's, so we may get reports from that quarter some time in the next century. -- Eric Lee Green (318) 984-1820 P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM uunet!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg