"Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere." ...which is a rather unsettling property in the foundation of your pyramid. I agree with your

"Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere." ...which is a rather unsettling property in the foundation of your pyramid. I agree with your theory--I'm just sad to see that there isn't always a lot of that in practice. Hell, they almost killed off SPARC support on Debian a month ago because of developer ADD.