Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Jerry Pournelle and Stupidity Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 22:44:55 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.MVXJ4ry00UgLQZg07J Posted: Mon Nov 2 22:44:55 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:23:19 EST Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 38 kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Oppose this good advice to Pournelle's iterated complete lack of > understanding of multitasking a couple of lines down in the same > column; again he thinks it's _always_ stealing cycles. Sigh. If > there is something more dangerous than that much influence coupled > with that stubborn an ignorance, I've yet to find it. At least he's > finally discovered that there are other programming languages than > BASIC! And further down the column you can find his gem of a comment that of all the major programming languages, only Modula-2 has support for mulitprocessing built into its structure. I wonder what all the people who designed Ada thought about that one. I really find it hard to believe that the BYTE editorial staff doesn't preview Jerry's columns and tell him when he's being completely and utterly bogus. He's only misleading those who don't know any better and making himself look like a jerk in front of those that do. He does more than make himself look bad; he makes the magazine look bad, too. I also think Jack Tramiel is paying the man off to push the ST and downplay the Amiga. I loved Pournelle's comment that an ST with PC-Ditto and a 68020 could outrun a regular PC. Never mind the fact that you can't run a 68020 in an ST to begin with, or that the same capability has existed on the Amiga for two years. I should really cancel my subscription to BYTE before packaged explosives arrive at Chaos Manor. --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club) "off the rack or custom-fit, it all seems the same" --ABC, "Date Stamp"