Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site birtch.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!felix!birtch!oleg From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.flame Subject: Re: Pournelle again Message-ID: <85@birtch.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 19:03:26 EST Article-I.D.: birtch.85 Posted: Fri Nov 1 19:03:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:44:24 EST References: <338@ucsbcsl.UUCP> Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) Organization: Birtcher, Santa Ana, Ca. Lines: 31 Xref: linus net.micro:11359 net.flame:11699 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. ----------------------------------+ Don't bother, I'll find the door, "Only through a violent revolution| Oleg Kiselev. can the existing order be pre- |...!{trwrb|scgvaxd}!felix!birtch!oleg served..."-Perfect Student Union |...!{ihnp4|randvax}!ucla-cs!uclapic!oac6!oleg