<OT> installation

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:29:39 PDT 2004


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, dep wrote:
> begin  Net Llama!'s  quote:
> | This 'feature' is called static binaries.  Its what prevents reuse
> | of common libraries, and leads to overall bloat.
>
> which must be why all those old dos apps wouldn't run on an 8088 with
> 640k and a 20-meg hd.<g>

And think how much better they would have run, if shared libs were used
back then.

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