Re: Minor wishlist item: any IBMers out there?

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From: Nick Maclaren
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 13:20

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< Sorry, gotta flame on this one...
< ... creating DLLs ...
< Worst yet, the greatest insult of them all, is that the poor clod has
< to reboot.  Real computers, with real OS's reboot when the power comes
< back on, and that's it.  I thought a 486 with OS/2 wass real.  Wrong.

Er, which real systems?  I am familiar with IBM MVS, several varieties of
UNIX, and have some knowledge of others.  In all cases, rebooting (or
equivalent) is needed to install some system modifications (usually including
adding new shared libraries).


Nick Maclaren
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,
Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Email:  nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk
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