Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Pournelle as a writer Message-ID: <1891@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 02:03:22 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1891 Posted: Sun Nov 25 02:03:22 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Nov-84 01:43:30 EST References: <585@amd.UUCP> <457@cyb-eng.UUCP> <576@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 17 > > However, he writes better SF than computer tech. > > This is a truly cruel and bitter condemnation. He also writes better computer tech. than SF. :-) I for one, killed my BYTE subscription when Pournelle's pages grew and the Byte-rumors section was dropped. I told BYTE why I did this. Then I wrote to the him at his MIT mailbox and told him the same thing. Later I had planned to tell him the same thing to his face, but he was a no-show at a conn. Anyway I just wanted the JP fans out there to know that there are people who are up front about their JP comments. chongo /\oo/\ -- "Don't blame me, I voted for Mondale!" John Alton 85'