I found Jon Udell's February article on NetWare informative, but my interest was piqued when I read that the original server was named Guernsey. I was born and raised in the Channel Island of Guernsey, 20 miles off the coast of France. What possessed you to use such an unusual name?
Rob Fulwell
miser@maxwell.ee.washington.edu
The BYTE building, in scenic downtown Peterborough, New Hampshire (pop.
<
5000), was the original headquarters of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. When BYTE moved in, many boxes of cattle registrations and breeding records moved out. For a while, our editors enjoyed free Guernsey milk from the vending machines. Incidentally, we named one of our servers Ourtown because Peterborough was the location that inspired Thornton Wilder's Our Town.--Jon Udell
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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