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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:07:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:07:25 1987
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> It is amusing to see the hardware people champion "simplicity" of design
> at the expense of software complexity, while software people clamor
> for "simplicity" of design at the expense of hardware complexity
> (for example, Niklaus Wirth)....

Many of the software people are among those clamoring for simplicity of
hardware design, mostly because the hardware designers have such a history
of getting things wrong when they try to be clever.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry