Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <135 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>4M is small compared to the size of while X11R4 core. Moreover, binaries can
>be shared through network.

Using shared libraries dropped SCO's distribution from 60 or so floppies to
about 25 or 30 (they're compressed, as well; the actual floppy count is 13
or 15, I believe; I doubled for that previous estimate).

Want to tell me again that shared libraries are bad?

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