Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: (was) Re: Requestors... (is) Jerry's machines Keywords: yuk yuk Message-ID: <4987@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 25 Jul 88 07:41:01 GMT References: <6104@pyr.gatech.EDU> <309@cadomin.UUCP> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs Hermosa Beach, Ca. Lines: 39 > ps. Why not just scam one off Jerry Pournelle ? I hear he's > column-ed his way into a fair amount of Amiga hardware... > ( again, :-) ) Not too likely. He likes it. Except why in heck is Amiga software so awkward to run? At least much of what is sent him is. Take FA-18 Interceptor for example. That code wheel and a 1 in three chance of actually getting past booting made it a bust at Alex's engagement party saturday night. BTW - his A1000 is now in the hands of Henry Vanderbilt in mass where it is being used to generate an HUD for a test vehicle for a Lunar Rover with remote teleoperation from Earth. Willie Smith is generating the vehicle and the delays in the loop using his S-100 system. The A-1000 with a genlock (and some ram and an StarDrive module provided by MicroBotics) will be providing a primitive HUD for the thing. The idea is attempt to predict the motion three seconds hence (well 2.5 but whose counting?) and place cross hairs on the screen in that position. It should help the operator control the thing and avoid runnig off cliffs. We hope... (And I *STILL* thik Worf is yummy!) >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Don Filipchuk | "... with human females, I must | >| | restrain myself too much. They are | >| University of Alberta | quite fragile." | >| Edmonton, Alberta | | >| Canada | - Lt. Worf -- | >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink both stink to high heaven.