Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!stsci!roberts From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland Message-ID: <2785@nemesis.stsci.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 06:35:35 GMT References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <3257@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3271@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 Lines: 16 All these postings are astonishing, from both sides of the Atlantic. Almost noone, including the initial posters, has made a due-diligence effort to determine if the 8th bit was the problem. I see the discussion, therefore, as a breast beating exercise on claiming one side or the other of the Political Correctness franchise. Long ago, the evidence suggested that the 8th bit had nothing to do with the problem with ALED, but the debate rages on. One is reminded of the story in George Eliot's _The Mill on the Floss_ (ok, it wasn't on the Floss), in which a pet beaver persisted in buildng a dam even though it was kept on the 4th floor of an apartment house. In her words, it was "under the direct teaching of nature". How many of us are? Isn't *someone* curious about the facts? -- Jim Roberts roberts@stsci.edu scivax::roberts