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On 11/15/2010 09:56 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>
>> This is niche enough, don't make it more complicated than needed.
>> Having its own major seems overkill.
> 
> I agree.
> 

Numbers are cheap, especially these days when we have 12-bit dynamic
majors.  Of course, we also have 20-bit dynamic minors.

	-hpa

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