>>>>> Dale Amon <a...@vnl.com> writes: <snip/>
> You will always know that if you write to screen coordinate 0,0, it > will be visible. Anything beyond that is an unknown. I.e. backwards compatibility. Nicely summarized. In the same vein: - http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp - because tapes were used in the first computers, you cannot add data at the beginning of a file, there was a physical constraint early on that blocked even the idea that the most recent data should be easier to access than the oldest (sometimes obsolete) one. The url above give several examples explaining why some things are so hard to change. Vincent -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss