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From: mike@ai.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: What's a PC? (was Re: Cynic's Guide to SE #6: Forthcoming)
Message-ID: <197@ai.etl.army.mil>
Date: 23 Oct 88 18:31:16 GMT
References: <9@helens.stanford.edu> <39400002@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <4935@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ai.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell)
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In article <4935@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>In article <39400002@m.cs.uiuc.edu> wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>]
>]>A good rule of thumb I've observed is that anytime a project can
>]>be done by one or (maybe) two people, a PC is probably your best choice.
>
>"IBM PC" which is what most people consider PC to mean).

The best software development environment on the planet earth is a lisp
machine.  This is a "PC" in the generic sense.  It is the quality of the
supporting environment that makes this so.  Those of us who know and
love these beasts are saddened by the manufacturing and marketing
ineptitude of the selling companies who have more-or-less insured that
"lispms" will never be much more than a curiosity.  Sigh.
-- 
Mike McDonnell at the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories, Bldg. 2592
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5546   TEL:(202)355-2724   ARPA: mike@ai.etl.army.mil