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From: emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Ada cost breakpoints
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The problem with this example is that it is clearly *VERY* dependent
on Unix, and specifically BSD, semantics.  Consider what would happen
if you tried to port this code to a non-BSD or non-Unix environment.  

Despite the Open Systems and POSIX movements, Unix is not the only
O.S. in the world (there's more DOS than any other O.S.) (scary, ain't it?)
			dave