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From: dyer@bacchus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Day #1 of Wash Conference
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 11:50:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 11:50:19 1987
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At the risk of belaboring this discussion far beyond what's proper, I
wonder which one of the panel members claims to be Columbus. :-)

Actually, I'm afraid Debbie might have misunderstood my comments, which
cast no aspersions on the presumptive egg of her metaphor, UNIX itself,
and certainly not on the genius of its creators, which has been granted often
enough in the last 15 years.  As long as we're using dinner parties as the
metaphor, I would say that it lasted too long, I ended up sitting beside
some particularly uninteresting dinner guests who wouldn't stop talking,
although there were some interesting people there, and that some of the
guests thought they were attending a wake, which made for a peculiar
atmosphere. :-)

I don't want to demean the efforts of the organizers, who obviously put a lot
of work into the production.  At the same time, they can't be 100% responsible
for the results, any more than a host could claim 100% resposibility for the
success or failure of a dinner party.  But you might decide who to invite
back, eh? :-)
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Steve Dyer
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