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Article #1262Re: Apple? (subject change)
From: Jeff Dege
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 02:54
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 02:54
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On 18 Aug 1995 16:29:55 GMT, Maynard Handley (maynardh@apple.com) wrote:
: So let me get this straight. You feel that an Protected Memory and
: Pre-emptive Multitasking are ESSENTIAL OS features. Yet you feel that a
: dynamic linking mechanism (call it DLLs, CFM, Component Mananger,
: whatever) is optional. Strange how your view of what's essential in an OS
: corresponds closely to the one OS with which you are familiar.
All dynamic linking does is save you disk space. I hardly consider it
an essential proporty of an OS.
--
the Windows API has done more to retard skill development
than anything since COBOL maintenance.
--Larry O'Brien
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!winternet.com!not-for-mail From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change) Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 19 Aug 1995 02:54:58 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Distribution: world Message-ID: <413jq2$oc@blackice.winternet.com> References: <docjoe-1408950754370001@ip100.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <nevin-1808950602190001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <4123m9$8dp@manuel.anu.edu.au> <412f64$4ge@goonsquad.spies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: klondike.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0]