In article <[log in to unmask]>, Tony Furnivall
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>At 11:18 AM 10/2/97 -0700, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>What I find is amazing is not that people did not know the composition
>>of water. It is that so many people agreed to ban something without
>>knowing what is was.
>>
>>Rich
>
>In a similar study some years back, a substantial majority decided that the
>ideas contained in the Preamble to the Constitution, and the Declaration of
>Independence were similarly revolutionary and dangerous! Makes a
>misanthropic soul like myself quite chortle with cynicism!
>Tony

I don't know if the denizens of HP3000-L are a representative population
for this purpose. Otherwise why are we still running slick efficient
HP3000s?

Haven't we been told enough times that they are dead, and the future
lies in implementing giant and doomed-to-failure Client Server projects,
using software that doesn't really exist yet, on massive databases
running on under-specified hardware, linked by untried communication
channels to user PCs half-stunned by the load of just painting up a
pretty screen, let alone accepting any data through it?

So why aren't we buying it? Surely our bell-curve must be skewed away
from gullibility? :-)

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