From: "Geo." 

In this day of CD's and DVD's, that point seems lost on developers..

Geo.

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3e539db9{at}w3.nls.net...
> The mainframe guys (and NASA) don't rebuild everything for a fix.  Many
decades ago they figured out the notion of leaving some
> blank space in the code/data areas for patch space.  Then you only need to
ship small deltas and a small patch application tool.
>
> "geo"  wrote in message
news:3e51343a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > So after a power failure that lasted several hours caused a hard drive
to
> > fail I found myself reinstalling W2K this morning on one of the desktops
at
> > work. No problem, grab my W2Ksp3 CD and install it, install IE6sp1 and
> > reboot. Ok now at this point I'm running the very latest service packs.
> >
> > I then go to windows update and find I need 17 updates totally 26.4mb?
> >
> > 26.4mb of patches in just barely 6 months?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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