Posts by shannonohara

Sci-Fi titan Jerry Pournelle passes,
aged 84

You are the only one

Byte - Initially a brilliantly-informed magazine that foundered on getting worked up about ephemera.

Who remembers or loves PERL? Or Pick?

It was fixated about these sorts of things.

I gave up.

Jerry Pournelle made us feel less than idiots.

He liked and played Games programs, to see what they would do.

Regards

Shannon O'Hara

He made computing fun

Pity about the curmudgeons.

I remember his Chaos Manor columns in Byte magazine with some affection: I remember he was enormously pleased when his old server computer – I think it was an original DEC, though I could be totally wrong – was taken in by the Smithsonian.