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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Microport Unix V/3
Message-ID: <506@riddle.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 10:24:31 EST
Article-I.D.: riddle.506
Posted: Wed Oct 28 10:24:31 1987
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Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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Keywords: Parkinson's law, shared libraries, V.3
Summary: Shared libraries _could_ make V.3 smaller than V.2...
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There's been some discussion about the size of Microport V.3 in terms of
disk space needed.  For what it's worth, I believe that Microport's
implementation, being of Interactive Systems/AT&T parentage, uses a shared
library for common libc.a functions in most of the utilities.  This ought
to cut down the size of the executable files by (sticking my finger in the
air) perhaps 12k per utility or, to put it another way, by about two
high-density diskettes for the couple of hundred utilities that now come
with UN*X.  Whether disk requirements are in fact reduced is a moot point:
I'm pretty sure that the extra goodies that come along with V.3 --
programmer's tools for making shared libraries, for instance -- will more
than take up any disk space saved by the use of the shared library.

Just a thought...
Dominic Dunlop
domo@riddle.UUCP  domo@sphinx.co.uk