From: Alan Frame <alan.frame@acm.org>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [uk.comp.os.linux] Re: Linux Answers & PC Plus
Date: 17 Feb 2000 00:44:10 GMT

[Submitter's note:  I love that comment about wizards. ;-) ]

Subject: Re: Linux Answers & PC Plus 
From: Simon Best <barsticus@earthling.net>
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux

phil hunt wrote:
> 
> <rant>
> Why are Unix utilities often so hard to use. Here's a section from
> my .procmailrc file:
> 
>    :0:
>    * ^TOsgml-tools
>    ./Mail/_sgml-tools
> </rant>

Wizards just wouldn't be wizards if they didn't have to use arcane
spells in wierd languages.

> Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months
> Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months

'In only a year's time, PCs will be so fast you won't notice any delay
at all.'  Always true in the present, never true in the past.  Ahhh, the
marvels of modern PC software engineering!