Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 91 00:30:53 GMT References: <1991Feb9.035631.15285@gsm001.uucp> <1991Feb9.212956.12871@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb10.023034.858@gsm001.uucp> <17981@imag.imag.fr> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: gourdol@imag.imag.fr's message of 11 Feb 91 17:26:01 GMT If you want to reply, use the address francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu. Don't know why zaphod is getting left off, but it is. In article <17981@imag.imag.fr> gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Arnaud Gourdol) writes: In article <1991Feb10.023034.858@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes: [Comments about the fact that a library in RAM would have to be duplicated several times] This is not necesarily true. One could imagine shared libraries in RAM. In fact, this is the way it works with the Amiga and the way it was supposed to work with the NeXT (the feature was not implemented in OS 0.9, I presume it is now?). For that matter, the IBM has always had what amounted to a RAM-based library: the calls accessed through INT $21. Mac just has more of it. -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/