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From: dan@idis.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Pournelle and Languages
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 03:57:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 03:57:15 1983
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I suspect that Pournelle still lives mainly in the world of 8 bit
machines with 48k bytes of ram and small floppy drives.  The people
that share this world with him (his intended audience) are consumer
types interested in appliance class machines.  From this perspective,
Pournelle's views are easier to understand.

He has buried his head in sand.  When he gets over his 16 bit fright
he will notice that cheap hard disks are common, average people are
more sophisticated about talking to computers, and 8 bit machines
are only used as outboard processors to run ancient and unportable
cpm programs that were common in primitive times (1983).