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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What Jerry Pournelle knows about computers
Message-ID: <1988Jan18.191532.214@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 18-Jan-88 19:15:27 EST

>	In _The Legacy of Heorot_ (Niven, Pournelle, Barnes 1987)
>	we are treated to the spectacle of a future computer on
>	a colony planet with goodies like voice input that has 
>	to be *told* to save when the power flickers!

This sort of thing is showing up elsewhere, too.  Too many authors
are assuming that their own experiences with PCs can be extrapolated
to all computers and all computer users.
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry