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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Some solutions to disk problems.... I think.
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> (Note that contradicting me is fine, but nay-saying bde requires serious
>  conviction on your part 8)

I'm not "nay-saying" anybody. This is what's called a discussion. ;-)

However, I *have* had 20 years of experience implementing real-time OSes
(whose performance criteria are much stricter than those for UNIces), so
I'm willing to contend that I know *something* about how to implement
such things.

--Brett