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Re: Before fragmenting, fix the broken bits first

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• Subject: Re: Before fragmenting, fix the broken bits first
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:03:20 -0800
• Cc: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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david.lyon@c... wrote:
> Quoting Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>:
>>>sometimes we get fixated with the idea that there is only one
>>>CPU and one communications link. It might have been this way in
>>>the past in the Commodore 64 and PDP-11 days but it's not like
>>>this now and certainly won't be like this in the future either..
>>>
>>>in those days.... the computer only extended as far as the
>>>the serial lines and the line printer....
>>>
>>>now... the computer stretches right the way round the developed
>>>world...
>>>
>>>so the parser is not the full extent of the api... just an
>>>ever diminishing part....
>>
>>I'm being honest here.  I really don't understand this entire thought,
>>but I get the sense it's rather esoteric.  My interest is a bit more
>>pedestrian.
> 
> can't see how it can be esoteric thing when the connections can be
> counted in mac addresses and the distances measured in kilometres...

I agree with Uche. That seems kind of incoherent to me. Please give 
people on this list credit for understanding modern communications.

Bob Foster

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