In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 05/03/2011
at 09:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>I've long wondered, if sequence numbers are so valuable, why haven't
>they spread outside the progeny of unit record systems?
Because all source code is stored on the progeny of unit-record
equipment. They've spread to tape and disk; what more do you want?
Now, if you want to complain that simple integers are too simplistic
and that sequence numbers should be tree structured, you'll get no
argument from me.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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