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Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia



Scripsit David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>

> > telnetd is a set of machine-language instructions. It doesn't actually
> > have any capabilities to do anything.

> This misses the point entirely so I'll try stating it another way.
> latex essentially runs in a virtual machine provided by tex the program.

My point is that there is no meaningful difference between "virtual"
and "non-virtual" machines in this respect.

-- 
Henning Makholm                    "It's kind of scary. Win a revolution and
                                a bunch of lawyers pop out of the woodwork."


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