question about viruses

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:07:31 1999

Ward Griffiths wrote:

> One of these days I'll have to track down a copy of release 1.0 and
> read it again. I read the copy I got from the SF Book Club back in
> the early '70s. I'm really not all that crazy about Gerrold's
> writing in general.

I'd be interested to know what the differences between the two releases are.

In release 2.0, the author was so insistent that 1.0 was flawed and out-of-
date, you wouldn't want to read 1.0, 2.0 was tons better, etc. Actually the
parallel with the software industry is frightening... I never noticed that
before now!

And what about releases 1.0.1, 1.5, 1.9999, 2.0 alpha, etc.? :) A few
authors actually use version control so this could happen.

Maybe the nice buyers on eBay would like a copy of "When Harl was Onw",
release 0.6?

-- Derek
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 08:07:31 GMT