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From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ugrading edition 2 graphics to edition 3
Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2000 21:40:25 +0100
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>>There's reinvention and there's reimplementation, as advocated by
>>forsyth in `more taste, less greed: sending Unix to the fat farm'

as noted in that paper, i borrowed the distinction
from the EMAS group, particularly their paper
``An Experiment in Doing it Again, But Very Well This Time''
(CSR-18-77 University of Edinburgh):

	By re-implementation, we mean re-programming and altering the
	structure of an existing system where necessary, so as to better implement
	the function of that system.  We distinguish re-implementation from two
	other activities.  These are the transportation of an existing system to
	new hardware, and the design of a new system.  If we transport a system,
	we leave its function and its structure unaltered.  Re-implementation is
	not merely a combination of transportation and re-design, but is a
	unique activity in its own right.  It is doing it again, but very well this time.