Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ssd From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead. News at 11:00. Summary: Jerry's mentality Message-ID: <2695@sugar.uu.net> Date: 28 Sep 88 05:23:27 GMT References: <3060@hubcap.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 24 In article <3060@hubcap.UUCP>, disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes: > Well, we'd always suspected it, but now it has been confirmed. Witness > the following, reprinted without permission from "Chaos Manor" in the > October 1988, Byte ragazine: Jerry's inane ramblings on F18 omitted....... > In addition to the above burbling, he continued his unfounded statements > about how the Amiga is not stable enough to recommend to unsophisticated > users. Maybe, but I think he's underestimating the average computer > user. .... > > That tell ya somethin', Jerry? > My two girls, ages 3 and 6, have little to no trouble with the Amiga. Granted, they aren't CLI wizards, but the 6 year old understands the Workbench constructs just fine and can get the thing up and running and into the game or utility of her choice with no trouble at all. I've got it!!! ...... Let's send Jerry back to Kindergarten!! The elementary school down the street has a great copmputer program for small minds... or maybe that's limited to small in *stature*. Scott Denham