Peter Deutsch wrote: >To continue to thrash this poor analogy a bit >further, I think it's time to consider that in addition to >permitting multiple clocks on a bus, it time to consider the >possibility that not every device needs to be on the same >bus. > But that's the situation that the Internet displaced: islands of connectivity, where you couldn't even send email from one island to another. (Sometimes you couldn't even send to other people on the same island: Minitel had multiple email services that couldn't connect to each other.) -- /===========================================\ |John Stracke |jstracke@centivinc.com | |Principal Engineer|http://www.centivinc.com| |Centiv |My opinions are my own. | |===========================================| |Earth: love it or leave it. | \===========================================/