Re: those bits can have 2 values for a reason

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From: Sean Conner
Subject: Re: those bits can have 2 values for a reason
Date: 20:19 on 07 Feb 2007
It was thus said that the Great peter f miller once stated:
> On 2/7/07, Robert Rothenberg <robrwo@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> >* An optimisation which gives a 20% performance boost that imposts a limit
> >  on the software, but one which will not affect 95% of the users (and
> >  which most of the other 5% can work around)?
> >
> >* No limits to what the software does (to make life easier for the 10%),
> >  but it runs slower.  Perhaps slower than a competing product.
> >
> >Given the trade, I wouldn't call the person who wrote such a function a 
> >moron.
> 
> I just discovered last week that Adobe Reader arbitrarily limits you
> to 20 open files. Can we please still call *them* morons?

  Hmmm ... I don't have the references handy (they're at home, I'm not) but
that sound suspiciously like the default open file limit under MS-DOS. 
Sigh.

  -spc (Aieeeeeeeeee!  Why do I remember such crap?)

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