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From: cramer@clem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
Keywords: enough is enough
Message-ID: <39105@sun.uucp>
Date: 16 Jan 88 04:57:07 GMT
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Reply-To: cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer)
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 23:57:07 1988

>I'd hardly call him [Pournelle] an authority on operating system design.  
>From where
>I stand all I see is this guy with a doctorate in psych who writes sci fi.

Well, it's a step up from having a doctorate in sociology ;-)

>As for his ravings in Byte, I'd say they're primarily generated by the totally
>mindnumbing brain-damage of the micro world.  Editor Y looses its mind over
>program X's file format.  It may be entertaining, but its certainly not
>worth worrying about.  ``I learnt my computer science from hacking out
>text on WordStar'' -- the mind boggles.

Agreed.  The fact that this cretin and his columns (which are filled with 
shameless plugs for his books and his son's enterprises, blather about the 
zillion computers he has at his house [how does he afford the electricity?],
and dopey enthusiasms for whatever the greatest-computer-program-in-the-
universe happens to be this month) are actually popular speaks volumes 
about the sorry state of computer-hobbydom.

Sam Cramer	{cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer  cramer@sun.com