Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!geowhiz!plocher
From: plocher@geowhiz.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <617@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 07:34:59 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <6952@ncoast.UUCP> <484@auvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
Distribution: na
Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept.
Lines: 24

>even the BSD un*x's are getting bigger.  Jerry is still in love with z80's,
>From what I've seen of his articles, if he had spent 1/2 the cash on one
>decent machine of the sun/3 (or equivalent, I'm not bigoted (much)) class
>as he has on umpteen-thousand tinkertoys, he'd be miles ahead.

A few years ago I was working for a company which sold S-100 CompuPro
systems (For their time they were good, solid iron - too bad they
didn't bother to learn how to use dynamic memory - when did you last
price 2 Mb of 100ns Static Ram? :-)  Anyways, as I was saying, I dealt
with Compupro stuff and was mildly amused by Jerry's fanaticism for
their systems.  Later, while at a trade show talking with some people
near the CompuPro booth I mentioned that Jerry was rather opinionated
about computers - at which point someone from the booth said "Yea,
Jerry is an asshole, but he's *our* asshole!"  I still chuckle whenever I
read one of Jerry's computer "reviews" :-)

Besides, everyone knows that he doesn't ever buy PC stuff - companies
just send him software and hardware to demo in the hopes he will write
about it in one of his columns!

Ps. Smile when you read this
  It's a joke, you hear?  A *joke*! -Foghorn Leghorn

 -John