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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:31:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Writing device drivers
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>but, as i think charles was implying [about compiling c to
>dis], you would get the "why doesn't X11 compile" etc.

yes, and that even having got that to compile, there is now
(even compared to 1996) a much bigger set of software that
is expected to work.

the relevance to `javascript' is that what the applications now
require is a rather big set of software that is expected to work