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By questioning "germane to the discussion" I was talking about my comments (as perhaps drifting off topic), not your comments, reborg.
I find your comments excellent (as always) and excellent reading. I was concerned that I was the one changing the course of this excellent discussion.
I had the same thought about my own statement, it could read as a bit flippant in particular to someone like the OP who hasn't seen first hand the changes of the past 10-15 years from the inside.
hpicracing,
there is one other thing that all good SAs,systems programmers, integrators and Unix people in general have and you should not underestimate this one: A complete hard-headed determination to make things that don't quite fit together work, it's almost as much the attitude as the code that forms the "glue" described by Neo.