Re: What exactly is Copland??

[dapst26+@pitt.edu (Daniel A Ponech)]

In article <3v8fu2$5pg@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
Keith Baird  <adkab@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>* When they choose "Mozart" I'll have to hold my breath - with a name like
>* that, it's gonna have to be awful damn good.... and nice as Mac O/S is, it
>* ain't up to Mozart standards by a long shot.  But it IS better than
>* Tchaikovski  - which windows equates to pretty well..
>
>Uh-uh, chucko.  Composer codename for Windows is "Salieri." 

I had thought it was closer to P.D.Q. Bach.  At the very least, Salieri
had technical consistency and delivered on time.  (I won't go into the twits 
who supported Salieri.  Any implied parallels between Salieri's patrons
and patron's of Windows would start a platform flame war in newsgroups
where it is, perhaps, best not carried out.)

 
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Daniel Ponech			"In the inevitable comparison to Windows 95,
University of Pittsburgh	we have to say that Copland is better."
dapst26@pitt.edu				_Byte_, June 1995, 68.
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