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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Links
Keywords: Link are good.
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.073801.29297@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 07:38:01 GMT
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In article <1989Sep18.210925.5543@NCoast.ORG> davewt@ncoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>	Well, that IS the obvious way, but it still requires that the OS
>be patched to handle links, which is just another place for a bug to
>creep in. And for a fairly unimportant feature at that...

Gee, people were telling me what great stuff ARP was, because it saved
- what, 40 or 50K? As a conservative estimate, links would save me
~400K on a single project.

From that perspective, links are an order of magnitude more important
than getting an ARP-like facilitiy into 1.4.

	<mike

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