From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!hamilton Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.348 Posted: Fri Aug 6 07:30:16 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 09:22:10 1982 #R:we13:-27600:uicsovax:3700013:000:1059 uicsovax!hamilton Jun 30 12:19:00 1982 ***** uicsovax:net.micro / kline / 6:30 pm Jun 29, 1982 The thing that burns me is those of us in the academic computer world who look upon computers as being `our' property. It's a pretty snobbish attitude to try to exclude the rest of the world from computers ... ... the infamous jargon and other attempts by computerists to keep the field to themselves .... ---- you make it sound like a concerted conspiracy to keep computers secret; this is absurd and contrary to the evidence. it's not the academic's job to put a computer in every garage, or even to educate the general public (not that it is inappropriate for one to try to do so, but it is not a shameful ommision to NOT do so). i don't know about you, but my job is to develop and "sell" (in a political sense) software for people who are not CS-oriented. if anything, i might be accused of trying to push computers on people who don't need or want them, in spite of all my attempts to make computers desirable. wayne hamilton ({decvax,ucbvax,ihnss}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!hamilton)