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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
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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?