[rescue] spam WPOISON

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:54:33AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > >>   Computers aren't object-oriented things.  While I do like
> > >> object-oriented programming, it simply doesn't map well to the
> > >> underlying hardware.
> > >
> > > What if the underlieing hardware is a ixp432, or FPGA work-a-like?
> >
> >    I think you mean iAPX432.  Dude, they sold like EIGHT of those
> > chipsets.
> 
> Which begs the question: Why on earth would any one want to do something
> like the 432?

Because it sounds cool?  At least, it does to me.  Perhaps if it hadn't
been so ADA specific in it's OO-ness it would have performed decently?