My opinion of Jerry Pournelle was that he was very opinionated, and very arrogant. I enjoyed his writing style, although I wonder if it was his editor who encouraged him to recycle many phrases that he seemed to thing were cute.
I think he knew more than me about computers (not hard, because I was living in a hut in Africa, without running water or electricity, most of the time I was reading Byte), but much less than a lot of other people who could have written a better column.
I think he knew more than me about computers (not hard, because I was living in a hut in Africa, without running water or electricity, most of the time I was reading Byte), but much less than a lot of other people who could have written a better column.