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Quoting Bob Foster <bob@o...>: > >>>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. I don't know what there is to misunderstand. and to imply that everybody else on the list has a full understanding of all types of modern communications is a bit snooty - Uche doesn't - that's what he said, and nor do I. Good luck with it.. whatever it is.... David ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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