On Jun 12, Donal K. Fellows modulated: ...
Though I'm not sure if most CPU and OS designers are actually good enough to satisfy the requirements of a true partial order over their components. I know both groups too well to trust them to get that right; CPU designers are too keen on "cute" hacks and OS designers tend to not believe just how important keeping things *really* compatible is...
I'd go a step further, and say that these relationships are application specific and not intrinsic to the OS or architecture. The underlying matching system should include some logical combining mechanism, and "user friendly" client-side tools should allow imposition of certain ordering idioms if this is desired. I don't think ANY standards body will capture all of the combinations which matter to applications, unless they produce a logical combination structure and canonically name nearly every combination. ;-) karl -- Karl Czajkowski karlcz@univa.com