"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>  wrote:
 > 386-dependant hacks ;-), and no one has apparently felt the urge to 
 > go over it and make it machine independant (unfortunately, neither has
 > anyone in the core group gone and architected a new solution).  (I share

On the contrary, Chris had architected a solution and presented it to
some people but then never got around to implementing it presumably
as a result of being re-directed to other areas of work. Anyways, just
thought I'd point that out.