Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Robert L Maynard
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 08:37

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In article <413jq2$oc@blackice.winternet.com>,
Jeff Dege <jdege@winternet.com> wrote:
>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.
>

When I'm multitasking I don't want my memory space chewed up by 
multiple copies of standard routines.  

 Dynamic Linking has been part of VMS for a long time.  Dave Cutler,
head architect of VMS & RSX-11, is also head architect of NT.

Bob

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Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
Date: 19 Aug 1995 02:37:50 -0600
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