Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!qantel!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Pournelle again Message-ID: <383@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:07:43 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.383 Posted: Sun Nov 3 12:07:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 04:01:43 EST References: <338@ucsbcsl.UUCP> <85@birtch.UUCP> Reply-To: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (55224-R. J. Vaughn) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 42 Keywords: right, alex? In article <85@birtch.UUCP> oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) writes: >About time someone said a word about Jerry... Pournelle's reviews are, at best, >incompetent babblings of an over-blown egotist. [and more about how pournelle *loved* the at&T 7300] i couldn't agree more. pournelle's reviews are so..... unprofessional it makes me doubt anything he says. he acts like he knows everything in the world about micro's, when most the time a manufacturer hands him a product, he uses it for 37 minutes, and then has his son alex tell us that it is ok. then he talks about some 4-bit micro he bought in 1973 that is still the best. "isn't that right, alex?", and alex says it is ok. his tales from "chaos manner" don't reflect on how "fast paced/up to date/ in the news/with it/on the fly" he is as much it shows he is unorganized, unprofessional, and biting off more than he can chew. he should take *time* to do reviews ("but we just don't have time, right alex?", and alex says we had time when we only had the 4-bit micro, our best machine) whatever his reviews are like, DOUBLE agreement on his ego. only a person sitting at home with his vic-20 could take his reviews seriously. he acts like everyone who makes a machine is holding their breath for the official pournelle OK. ("jim, i just got the word -- jerry checked out the new modem over coffee, and alex agreed to say it's ok. we're IN!!") oh well, maybe he'll read this. i know alex will. alex is the local unix expert. jer consults him all the time. right, alex? ron vaughn ...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv quote from the 7300 article, "the lord of the manor moves upstairs". (jesus, what an ego): "my son alex is a UNIX hacker (see, i told you! -rjv); he very much likes the machine. he glues himself to it every opportunity. although i suspect it's largely to play rogue, a game of unimaginable fascination." thank *G*O*D we got the official alex ok. the machine is guaranteed market success now :-) pournelle then goes on to admit he doesn't play rogue. no wonder he can't imagine the fascination.