smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) (06/28/91)
Anyone see the Weissman interview in NUJ13? Aside from some of
the strange philosophy, I thought this statement was interesting:
"On the other hand, you have UNIX workstations where the great
virtue is the UNIX operating system - great platform technology,
and the biggest weakness of UNIX workstations is also the fact
they are UNIX workstations which I call tools for propeller heads.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would put Sun, HP/Apollo, DEC in that category. They're not
tools for people. They're for niche markets, for a few scientist
and engineers who are very deeply embedded in computing."
Propeller heads??? No wonder Jobs has had problems with his
edu promotion!! Propeller heads! I love it!!
-Bill
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I agree -- I have no hair on my head, much less a propeller, inside or out. To boot, in spite of the exhortations to spellcheck (and proofread) articles, the interview has a few annoying typos/misspellings: p. 10 Right column, line 5: their -> there p. 11 Left column, line 23: sight -> cite p. 13 Left Column, line 21: it's -> its p. 16 Right column, line 11 from bottom: Coonts -> Kunz p. 17 left Column, line 3 from bottom: Coonts's -> Kunz' It almost looks as if Ron Weissman did not get to read his interview, which was probably tape-recorded; as a humanist he should have caught these errors. Remarks for the editors: For printing the margins are too narrow and the distance between columns too large (I printed the ps version, since transfering to the NeXT at 2400 baud was too time-consuming). Smaller fonts might help save some trees! And placing orphaned titles at the end of a column is not very pleasing to the eye! (I ran ispell on this posting -- just to avoid any flak!). Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET