Re: Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a microcomputer

2017-09-11 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 09/11/2017 07:28 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a > MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. As a historian is it worth > the aggravation to please everyone? Does revisionism take away the > honour(Cdn. Here!) Jerry Pournel

Re: Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a microcomputer

2017-09-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk
> On Sep 11, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >> Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a >> MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. > > It is EMPHASIS of individual words and phrases. > THIS IS SHOUTING! FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENCE! Zippy the Pinhead

Re: Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a microcomputer

2017-09-11 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. It is EMPHASIS of individual words and phrases. THIS IS SHOUTING! FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENCE! As a historian is it worth the aggrava

Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a microcomputer

2017-09-11 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. As a historian is it worth the aggravation to please everyone? Does revisionism take away the honour(Cdn. Here!) Jerry Pournelle rightly deserves for pioneering work in our beloved computing gen