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From: perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Amdahl's Rule
Message-ID: <4890002@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 23:36:53 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>Re: Amdahl's Law
>
>The use of RISC machines demands more memory and the use of shared
>libraries reduces memory needs.  I think the DEC machine does not use
>shared libraries as is the case for the HP offerings at present.
>
>Douglas Rogers

Just a minor nit - the 8.X releases which are just hitting the streets
have shared libraries.  This is true for the current 9000/700 releases
as well.

Perry Scott
HP Ft Collins