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Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment impor
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Date: 22 Aug 90 13:55:00 GMT
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> I assume the architectural quirks that Brian was referring to are the
> grey areas in any architectural definition covered by such phrases as

What I meant is simple.  Tying software architecture to a support
architecture is always a matter of evaluating risks and benefits.
There is no difference in kind between the decisions to depend on
POSIX, on SunOS, on the 68K, or on a particular architectural feature
of the Gould PN machines.

Brian Marick
Motorola @ University of Illinois
marick@cs.uiuc.edu, uiucdcs!marick