BIG BROTHER -- Another reason to preserve systems

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Gary Hildebrand wrote: Me too. The concept of e-books is horrid, and has all sorts of rotten implications. A company that I used to work for, which is involved in e-books, also creates web sites for professional journals, and, at the request of a publisher, made changes to text _after_ the journal was published. Ok, it was a correction, however, consider the implications; not good. Besides, there's nothing like the satisfaction of going into a book store, looking through books, buying some, then being able to leisurely read through them where and when one wants - no electricity, no batteries, no net connection, nothing to break if its dropped or stepped on... like when my mobile telephone was stepped on by a horse... only a paper book, not an e-book reading device, could survive that. :-) Do you think that an an uncensored version of _Huckleberry Finn_ would survive in the e-book world for very long (I doubt one will survive decades unchanged)? Back on topic: Those restoring older cars can obtain certain body parts, etc. which have been cloned (albeit some are of dubious quality, although some are better) from the originals, and even some auto manufacturers have begun manufacturing a few once discontinued parts as demand has risen. Does anyone foresee the possibility of the manufacturing of clones, or electrically compatible work-alikes, of certain discontinued ICs at some point in the future? -- R. D. Davis rdd(a)perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900