Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead. News at 11:00. Message-ID: <2704@sugar.uu.net> Date: 29 Sep 88 10:49:52 GMT References: <3060@hubcap.UUCP> <70319@sun.uucp> <6206@dayton.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 40 In article <6206@dayton.UUCP>, joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes: > I mean, come on! Anyone who can co-author brainstorms such as "Oath of > Fealty" can handle a little computer technology. The keyword is "co-author". His two top victims, Larry Niven and David Gerrold, write *much* better stories when he keeps his sticky fingers out. All he adds is a plethora of minor characters and a bunch of his fascist politics. > And when he complains that the Amiga > crashes from time-to-time, he's exactly right. It *does* crash every now > and then. So does the IBM-PC, when you run buggy software. I remember trashing a couple of programs back in the bad old days when I was using a PC, because they'd freeze on me. The only difference is that the Guru Meditation is politically incorrect. He'd much rather have a hard freeze or a cute little "bomb". > Manx "z" (at least version 3.4A) has bugs in its garbage collection, > for instance, that gives you reproducable crashes. Yeh, it's a pisser. I was upset to discover they hadn't been fixed in 3.6. If they weren't so dependable (1,$s/^M//) I wouldn't use it. But since I can reliably keep it from crashing, I can use it just to avoid Emacs. > The average guy out there > isn't going to be real understanding when his 1-hour edit session was just > wasted 'cause the computer crashed. Yeh. Try sticking a lan on a PC. It's agony... ever had someone pissed because someone *else's* machine crashed, and their LAN software locked up their machine? > Don't bitch about what he says. Fix it. -Joe I'm working on it. But not because of Jerry. In spite of him. What are you doing? -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?