Re: OT installation

2002-04-13 Thread M.W.Chang
and the war against microsoft could have been begun earlier. It's the shared libraries that M$ wanna control. Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, dep wrote: begin Net Llama!'s quote: | This 'feature' is called static binaries. Its what prevents reuse | of common libraries, and

Re: OT installation

2002-04-09 Thread Net Llama!
This 'feature' is called static binaries. Its what prevents reuse of common libraries, and leads to overall bloat. Please join us in the 21st century. You might actually like it here. On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, m.w.Chang wrote: Of one thing that I liked about DOS: There were little dependence

Re: OT installation

2002-04-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:52:48 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, dep wrote: begin Net Llama!'s quote: | This 'feature' is called static binaries. Its what prevents reuse | of common libraries, and leads to overall bloat. which must be why all those

OT installation

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
Of one thing that I liked about DOS: There were little dependence between products. SO you can always add/remove packages without breaking others. YOu always knew where your data and the program (games, dbase, wordstar, wordperfect, lotus, harvard graphics, ...) were (well, at least in my