RE: Product Enhancement by Voting?

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Product Enhancement by Voting?

Thank you!

 

Your name is familiar but I can't say that I remember you.  I do remember running Newslink over a 1200 baud modem.  Then 2400 then 9.6 then 14.4.  I had a Mac in those days and I was commuting between Alaska and New Orleans.  That was a looonnnggg time ago!

 

Where is Litchfield in NH?  I drove from Portsmouth up to the White Mountains a few years ago.  That is pretty country.  A couple centuries ago, I had a relative who lived in upstate Vermont - a guy named Ethan Allan.  In 1996, I did a benchmark at the Digital lab about 5 miles into NH from Mass. 

 

Feynman was a bright man with some very strange habits.  His womanizing was legendary but rarely discussed.  He had some unusual friends - like Watson of DNA fame.  Some sage observed that genius can be recognized when a person solves problems using methods that are not obvious to normal people.  That describes Dick Feynman pretty well.  It also describes Johnnie Von Neumann. 

 

What ever happened to Newslink?  This board seems to be very active.  I can hardly keep up with the traffic!

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Steve Moland
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:19 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Product Enhancement by Voting?

Very, very well said.

BTW, if you're the person I remember from the old 1200bps modem days on the pre-1990s newslinks, you're insight here doesn't surprise me.

...and "Feynman", there's a guy. I wish we could get some of his DNA and clone him to write tech manuals.

Regards
Steve Moland
Litchfield NH

>>It is up to us - to you and me - to keep the platform and ourselves vibrant
>>and tied to the future.  Adding future-oriented features to RPG is part of
>>>that effort.

>>>I am certain that I'm not smart enough to make all the decisions but I don't
>>>want IBM to make decisions for the future of a language based mostly on
>>>casual voting.