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From: jones@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
Message-ID: <398@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 18:50:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 18:50:15 1987
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Reply-To: jones@fortune.UUCP (Dan Jones)
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In article <8524@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> 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.

Thanx, Henry, for inspiring me.

Jones's Observation on Simplicity:  The only thing more complex than 
                                    clever hardware is clever software.

Dan Jones