Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Let's help Jerry's kids
Keywords: amiga, movie, print
Message-ID: <14514@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Sep 88 00:14:41 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <2308@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>
>This month (October publishing Date for Analog SF magazine)
>there is a "science fact" article titled "High-Tech for the
>Little Red Schoolhouse" Authored by Roberta Jane Pournelle
>
>I wonder how the Pournelles are doing?
>

I was talking to a guy from Supra at the Dev.Con in Washington, and he
told the following about good old Jer'. I was at the ComputerFaire
last Feb (?) was saw the great Himself speak. He praised the Ami, just a 
little, but added a whole lot of comments that essentially said "get
an Atari instead. . .". Well, the engineer from Supra was there,
and had dinner with Jerry and a bunch of others that evening. To be
sure, the discussion slipped over to ST vs. Amiga wars. Jerry's son
(who was rumored to have been developing ST software), jumped in to
defend the Amiga while his father was standing up for Jack's toy.

"The Amiga : a muliti-tasking Real Homewrecker"

At least some Pournelle's have the blinders removed.

One minor additional note. At Jerry's lecture, he mentioned how some
design studios were using the ST for "professional" work. He then added
"if only it didn't have those damn borders" (read "if only it did overscan!")



-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people
 some of the time, but you can't fool Mom".
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]