Michael Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:40:11PM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > *>The topic for February's meeting will be practical applications of XML. > > > > I'll look forward to this as I still haven't figured out what makes XML > > useful. > > They're going to ditch C and write the Linux kernel in XML as of version > 3.0. This could have one major advantage: No more reboots. Upgrading the kernel... save its data structures in a way that doesn't depend on their bit structure. Turn off your machine, upgrade your hardware, move across the country without dragging your PC, perhaps even switch CPU types... and when you turn it on again, all your processes are still running happily. Great for people like me who like to keep between 100 and 400 Emacs buffers open and mourn their lost state whenever the process exits. (btw, I know you were joking:) -- John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\\ /// ]]] With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow. [[[ /// \\\
