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Message-ID: | <37D5F094.DD749246@unb.ca> |
From: | Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> |
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die. |
References: | <7quo1t$94k$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <37D2ECE3 DOT 9BB2B63E AT unb DOT ca> <37D46EBF DOT 22AAC1C4 AT hmc DOT edu> <37D4C3D4 DOT 6E09 AT earthlink DOT net> <7r4hgc$6hs$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> |
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Date: | Wed, 08 Sep 1999 05:30:26 GMT |
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Organization: | Sympatico |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
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Reply-To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Damian Yerrick wrote: > Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote: > > One legacy bug still in Word97 traces its ancestry directly to Winword > > 1.0 and DOS4's SHARE bug. And that's just one leetle bit of old code > > that needs to be cleaned out. Someone dismangled RegClean and found of > > its 800+k only 47k were required for the program's full functionality; > > all the rest was irrelevant leftovers. If you ask me, even just these > > two examples indicate a codebase in desperate need of a thorough > > housecleaning. > It would be a lot easier if M$ made parts of Win 9x open source. > But that will probably never happen. But, then how could they charge money for it, when you could get the sources yourself? -- (\/) Endlisnis (\/) s257m AT unb DOT ca Endlisnis AT HotMail DOT com ICQ: 32959047
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