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From: | "Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. |
Date: | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:24:14 -0500 |
Organization: | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
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Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote: > One legacy bug still in Word97 traces its ancestry directly to Winword > 1.0 and DOS4's SHARE bug. And that's just one leetle bit of old code > that needs to be cleaned out. Someone dismangled RegClean and found of > its 800+k only 47k were required for the program's full functionality; > all the rest was irrelevant leftovers. If you ask me, even just these > two examples indicate a codebase in desperate need of a thorough > housecleaning. It would be a lot easier if M$ made parts of Win 9x open source. But that will probably never happen. Damian Yerrick http://come.to/yerrick
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