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From: ables@cyb-eng.UUCP (King Ables)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Something you'll never see in Pournelle's column
Message-ID: <457@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 11:00:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 11:00:11 1984
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[Ah pity da fool who eats dis]

>>(paraphrased) JP has access to the net so he must know how to
>>		login to (or is it log into?:-) ) UNIX.

Not necessairly.  There are other kinds of machines on the Arpanet.
In fact, I believe MIT-MC is a Dec-20 if I remember correctly.  I've
also seen Dec-10s and it seems like one or two other things I didn't
recognize.

Also, if you're talking about UUCP, the range is even broader.  Vaxes
running (cringe) VMS can even do that.  Some peoples' micros have been
known to do it, too.

This is not to defend JP about anything, since I haven't really been
following this discussion, anyway.  I don't think he and I would get
along personally, but that could be as much my fault as his.  I do,
however, think he knows what he is talking about MOST (not all!!) of
the time, and given the level of reader at which he is aiming, I have
never been dismayed with any of his work.

However, he writes better SF than computer tech.

-King   (note new address)
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