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From: pascal stenuit <pascal.stenuit@gtech.com>
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Subject: Re: Language support for  flexible handling of system-detected
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:34:57 +0200
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I don't know much about this, but wasn't this tried ( circa90s) with PCTE, the
so-called
software bus?

See for instance

http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/Ecma-149.htm

Regards,
pascal stenuit


hack wrote:

>
> Agreed -- it's the lack of the *concept* even of a standard interface that
> hurts.  It could just be a chicken-and-egg problem -- but I'm afraid it's
> worse because there isn't even a general desire for this kind of thing, as
> far as I can tell.