From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ralph Corderoy Message-ID: References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:36:43 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6732cdbe-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi Jim, > It's not like there is any magic there, it's bits, it -all- breaks > down to read/write/and/or/not/shift/jump on bits in ram or a register > in the final analysis. I don't think anyone here is disagreeing that technical solutions can't be implemented -- it's just a simple matter of programming... > The bottom line is that my view is that the complexity should be in > the OS hidden from the users but it could be that they feel it's better to not have the facility until a non-complex method can be conceived rather than add complexity anywhere, including the OS. Cheers, -- Ralph Corderoy. http://inputplus.co.uk/ralph/ http://troff.org/