Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/13/2001 4:18:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:

It was an example.  You're clear on the concept, yes?

You said that my claim that there is functionality in Linux that Win*
doesn't support was 'unlikely'.  I gave you an example.

It's not a matter of "I don't know how to do it".  It's a matter of
"It's impossible without altering the OS or programming in machine
language to get around the OS".

Counter-example.  QED.

OK.  Thank you, for adding the useful information -- what I asked for -- that
it genuinely is impossible.  I won't ask to see the proof, since I probably
could not follow the details of the systems anyhow.  

Now for the deeper question: does this mean that MS can't do something that
Linux can.  That is, is the function which MS can't compute an in=> out
function or one used in the internal operations of Linux?  If the latter,
then no matter how hard it makes step-by-step emulation, it is ultimately not
a shortcoming of MS, if it can accomplish anything that Linux can using
another line of operation (abaci have lousy TM emulators, but still calculate
all the same functions).  And, of course, it may make a difference in
efficiency of calculation as well.  On the other hand, if it is an external
function that Linux can and MS can't calculate, that is a serious defect in
MS and worth some putdown points (unless there is a coounter case that MS can
and Linux can't compute).  
I thought there were Linux emulators for Windows as well as conversely.