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On May 17, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Wirt Atmar wrote:

> No where in anyone's long printouts of massive amounts of code in this
> group does anyone put in a line saying "poof, a miracle occurs here, a
> miracle beyond our understanding."

Oh, yes they do, almost verbatim. I'll have to send you my MPE/iX
network server code, which uses software interrupts.

I don't know if it makes a different to the theology, but I've noticed
that such miracles are usually bad ones.

-- Bruce

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