Firefox/4.0.2pre SeaMonkey/2.1   
   From: "James J. Weinkam"    
      
   Steven Levine wrote:   
   >   
   > What is true is that within the sorted statements, certain sets of   
   > statements must be in a specific order.  Typically this is to satisfy   
   > hardware requirements such as Lar's describes for the EHCI driver.   
   > Sometimes, it is to satisfy timing requirements or work around   
   > implementation errors.  For example, it is recommonend that helperw be   
   > the first RUN statement.  This gives it a better chance to finishing   
   > its initialization before the network applications are started.   
   >   
   Unfortunately, we mortals who are not privy to the information and resources   
   needed to fix the problem are forced to    
   resort to workarounds such as you describe.   
      
   What astonishes me is that in an operating system developed largely by IBM,   
   with all their corporate experience,    
   starting in the late eighties, such matters were left to chance. In a properly   
   designed operating system nothing is left    
   to chance. Process synchronization primitives have been well known since the   
   sixties. I think the word that best    
   describes such a design is incompetence. Sad.   
      
      
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