Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mcp
From: mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet another 1.4 wish
Message-ID: <1989Jun13.214755.5251@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 89 01:47:52 GMT
References: <16905@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: mcp@ziebmef.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <16905@louie.udel.EDU> MROBINSON@wash-vax.bbn.com writes:
>[dtsteen@dahlia.waterloo.edu wishes that the stack size become
> part of the executable]
>
>Hey, yeah!  But this makes me wonder why the people who were bright
>enough to include shared libraries and a message-based OS didn't do
>it this way.  I wonder whether I'm just provincial, thinking all OSes
>should be like the ones I've used....  So, what are the advantages of
>having it separate, anyway?

You get the code to do it ported in 6 weeks flat is the advantage.
That decision was made in BCPL-land, so it doesn't have to be good,
'cause it was there thursday.  I agree it's rather a kludge.
-- 
	-Colin Plumb