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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268)
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Subject: Re: Pournelle again
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 19:03:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 19:03:26 1985
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About time someone said a word about Jerry...  Pournelle's reviews are, at best,
incompetent babblings of an over-blown egotist.

I was not too bothered by his mis-representation of CP/M and Macintosh 
capabilities, but what really upset me was Pornelle's praise of AT&T 7300.
Maybe because I had a chance to play with it for a few days and as many of my
friends who had used 7300 found it an even worse product than 3b2.

This machine sports the slowest windowing system, the noisiest hard-disk,
and the slowest process/page swap of ANY UNIX micro I've seen. It does not
come with C compiler as a standard utility. Manuals are terrible. Screen layout
is unpleasant. A 1/2 inch corroded attemt at an pointing arrow can not even
move to all points on the screen! Just try moving a window. The mouse can roll
all the way to the edge of the screen, and window'll be in the middle of it!
All in all, AT&T 7300 makes Mac look like a real computer.


To treat 7300 as the best thing that happened to programmers since transistors 
and full-screen editors is simply STUPID! I wonder if Jerry tried to
run Multiplan on it, or whatever word processor came with his machine.
The speed of responce I got on 7300 was TERRIBLE! There is something VERY
SICK about the machine and it got a GREAT REVIEW in Jerry's column.  

If I had *ANY* respect for J. Pournelle, it's gone now!
-- 
Disclamer: My employers go to church every Sunday, listen to Country music,
and donate money to GOP. I am just a deviant.
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