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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Programming MS-Windows vs. Amiga (Re: resource tracking)
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Date: 3 Mar 90 09:37:36 GMT
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In article <5223@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Well, Hello World in X with the Toolkit is about 10 lines of code and data.
>
>And links to at least a 300K executable, just for the equivalent of the Amiga
>console device. I'd call that cheating. How about doing it with Xlib?

That's not cheating. That's using the tools available. NOBODY would use Xlib
for something like that TODAY.  People used Xlib for Hello World about 2 
years ago.  The point is how does it take to do hello world on a given machine
with a given environment.  The large size of X programs is due to the fact that
on UNIX nobody really care about program size because of virtual memory.  And
there are ongoing projects of making "sharable" things like the Intrinsics 
and Xlib. But you knew all that :-)

>> Try to do the same with the Amiga and take a look at the result.
>
>Probably a couple of lines with Supercard, and that's not that big.

Supercard? I never heard of it.  How many DO know about it? I don't think it
comes with my Amiga :-)

-- Marco
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