>On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:50:39 -0400 
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> > An excellent question. It was a good idea. If he has no time to
> > implement them, it would be cool if someone picked up the ball.
>
>...I personally felt they were way too alien, and would only cause more
>people to say "Woah, too weird.  I'll try a different OS."
>
>A simpler design with less Magick would appeal to me a lot more.

`HUH?'

The entire point of the design was that, *unlikely every other method
proposed or currently in use*, there is *no* `Magick' in the kernel at
all!  It would know nothing about any particular partitioning scheme.