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From: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 20:00:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  7 20:00:45 1987
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In article <8907@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>In article <3470@islenet.UUCP>, richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>> 
>> But to attack someone who writes software and distributes it free of
>> charge, to attack them because they don't cater to your particular
>> obsolete machinery is amazingly selfish and stupid.
>> 
>
>Henry Spencer is anything but selfish and stupid, as you would know if you
>had spent any time on the net.  He's entitled to his opinion.  You'll be
>entitled to call him names when you've contributed as much as he has.
>
>-- 
>Ed Nather
>Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
>{allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather
>nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU


Ed, pulllleeeezzzzeee!  Henry normally doesn't make silly rash comments
like the one he made.  
It's quite understandable that Rich might feel RMS is going in the
right direction and to take exception ((trap 0xffffff I believe, "Nonsense 
Instruction Trap".)) to Henry's comments.  Coming from a man who is
normally the voice of reason, I too found Mr Spencer's comments off base
and childish.  I choose to encourage people like RMS.  Hopefully, someday
we will ALL own the type of machines RMS is writing for.

Which brings me to my next comp.arch question.
*WHAT ARE THOSE MACHINES GOING TO BE??*.
Barring RISC vs. CISC debates.  What is *THE* next great advance in 
computer technology.  Better hardware?  Not 64 bits.(?) I meant more 
in design.  What do you guys at MIPS, LISP Machines, Motorola, Intel, 
NEC, Sun (yes they are now in the CPU game), etc.... see as the most 
promising area of exploration?


Hopefully this is a more appropriate line of discussion..... 8^)

Jeff
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Jeff Gortatowsky       {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  
These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's. How's that for a
simple and complete disclaimer?