<OT> installation

Rick Sivernell res005ru
Mon May 17 11:29:40 PDT 2004


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:52:48 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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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Lonnie

  actually they ran better in OS/2 doswindow & windows apps ran better too.
Go figure, well not really, OS/2 was a better windows than M$sludge. Big Time

cheers

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