> You make this sound like a super BIOS, or perhaps a microkernel. It's an abstraction layer. Kind of like comparing UNIT=DISK vs UNIT=3390; the system figures out the Right Thing to Do based on the other parms fed to it.
> Speculating under tinfoil (which I always keep handy) I see this as a > potential big win for the DRM purveyors. It's a step in the right direction for a lot of things -- decoupling the details of implementation from an application makes things lots more flexible. It'll live or die by how efficient the decoupled application is compared to optimized platforms (see UCSD p-System or the JVM for examples of real failures to do this right, or OS/400 for an example of getting it EXACTLY right). -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
