From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!faunt Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Jerry Pournelle"s User"s Column in Byte Article-I.D.: hplabs.1188 Posted: Sat Feb 12 13:00:16 1983 Received: Tue Feb 15 07:50:19 1983 References: sri-arpa.419 decvax.419 Jerry Pournelle's doctorate is in political science from the University of Washington, and a friend of mine with the same degree says that his dissertation was extremely derivative and contained no new thoughts at all.