On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:14:19 +0000 john gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
:>In his most recent post in this thread Peter Relson speaks of :>> . . . massive restructure to allow multiple address spaces before LPA is built . . . :>and I am not dubious. :>His argument is, I am sure, a sincere and not a disingenuousd one. It is nevertheless an argument of the form, 'Scrambled eggs cannot be available on the breakfast menu; they are available only on the lunch menu; to make them available at breakfast too would require us to serve breakfast in a different dining room, change the size of the plates on which we serve breakfasts, bring the lunch crew in five hours earlier, etc., etc. Actually it is more like "People aren't willing to pay more, so why take great efforts to provide scrambled eggs for breakfast". It is nice to sit in an ivory tower and speak of what should be, but there are also practical considerations. Just because something can be done does not mean that it worth the effort to do it. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
