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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5447)	4/11/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Ron - Quick question: From what B. Bemer told you, did you sense that his solution would have worked cross-platform? A I think I'm about 3 years out of touch with Bob's efforts, but my basic impression was that given his unique approach (very heavy duty bit-twiddling) & changing the data (thereby making it unreadable by programmers) it would have limited appeal. To say nothing of the complexity of taking the idea from theory to field application in a very short period of time. And then factor in that the market just isn't interested... Bob's skills were heavy duty IBM mainframe, where EBSIDIC (sp?) coding rules. The desktop is dominated by ASCII. These are schemes by which all numbers & characters are represented by bit sequences. Extremely esoteric stuff that I only dimly remember from my Assembler days 25+ years ago. You can still see such stuff when your browser's address line shows all sorts of strange stuff like &20 (apersand two zero) which means something like a space. Very few technical people (certainly not me, I'm just aware of the existence) understand this sort of bit level stuff. It's totally over the head of managers, particularly when they'd be essentially betting their business on a potential approach that's not proven yet. Easy to say no... - David