Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Weissman article NUJ13 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 14:28:11 GMT Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 15 Anyone see the Weissman interview in NUJ13? Aside from some of the strange philosophy, I thought this statement was interesting: "On the other hand, you have UNIX workstations where the great virtue is the UNIX operating system - great platform technology, and the biggest weakness of UNIX workstations is also the fact they are UNIX workstations which I call tools for propeller heads. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I would put Sun, HP/Apollo, DEC in that category. They're not tools for people. They're for niche markets, for a few scientist and engineers who are very deeply embedded in computing." Propeller heads??? No wonder Jobs has had problems with his edu promotion!! Propeller heads! I love it!! -Bill -- EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) NeXTmail: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800