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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
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Subject: Re: Tail patches
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Date: 11 Nov 89 21:42:59 GMT
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In article <26596@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
> The best thing would of course be to change the way apple patches those
> long routines, but since they have started doing something stupid, it is
> very unlikely that they will ever stop.

Momentum isn't the primary reason that we haven't changed the scheme; the 
original rationale is.

Larry Rosenstein has already explained that rationale in this forum quite 
cogently; I suggest that you re-read some of the old messages in this 
thread to find it.

In particular, I can think of some really evil compatibility problems that 
your suggested fix could provoke; that's one reason that we aren't likely 
to use it in the future.

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