Re: Pipe dreams

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Leslie Bialler wrote:

> And as I also noted: it seems to me that devising a word processor that
> emulates XyWrite when we already have XyWrite reminds me very much of
> the Borges story in which a cartographer attempts to draw a map of his
> region on a scale of 1:1.

The model railroaders refer to people who play with real trains (tourist
lines and the like) as being into 1:1 scale railroading . . .

But such is the tendincy to wander off topic.

George H Scithers