In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/01/2006
at 02:36 PM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Well, you're the one with the FAP; I can only argue from what I
>remember, and that memory is over 15 years old. My recolection is
>that node type wasn't code at all; that it was a description of the
>hardware that exwecuted the code.
Two different programs on the same hardware can implement two
different protocols. The architecture is determined by behavior, not
by how that behavior is implemented, and it's the software that
determines the behavior, e.g., what is in the XID.
--
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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