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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:01:01PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> With a distributed system one spends all sorts of time making sure
> that what YOU think is in release X is what the guy you are helping
> debug thinks is in it..
> 
> Gone is the ability to say "That came in with rev 23456 so if you
> are later than that you have it."

Just because it's true of System X, which is in the class of
"distributed systems", doesn't mean it's inherent in the class...


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