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From: [e-mail] (Bruce Dubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: CS, what do they know?
Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:52:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
|
|    The CS curriculum is sure on the ball around here.  I am taking
|an operating systems class and the professor had never heard of WIndows
|NT (but did know a bit about OS/2).

Actually its not limited to your school.  You have to understand what
the objectives of the faculty in academia are.  The objectives are to
write papers and get them published.  It does not matter if the
content of the papers is meaningful or not, just the number of papers
you get published and the number of times your papers are cited.

You must understand, OS/2 and Windows NT offer no new ideas.  They are
only new implementations of old ideas.  They are "beneath" the notice
of most (not all) CS faculty.

For an interesting (and tragic) discussion, read "Imposters in the
Temple" by M. Anderson.
   -- Bruce


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