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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:12:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>
> Translation: Andre has been in a few too many ATA meetings and can't think
> without using storage industry insider-speak ;)

We know ;)

> I only had a 6 months internship in storage, but I believe what he's
> talking about are sound engineering principles.

No. Sound software engineering principles is to design good interfaces,
and make the low level code adhere to them.

Andre comes from the other end - he writes and talks about low-level code,
and thinks that should drive how upper layers work.

			Linus

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