(Excerpts from a message dated 11-20-99, Jack Stein to Murray Lesser)
Hi Jack--
JA>Now Jack, you'll have someone start a thread about "how small was
>that program I wrote way back when...."
ML> I vote for David Noon's 1998 TELLBOOT "external function"
ML> for OS/2 REXX, written in assembly language. The DLL file
ML> is 619 bytes.
JS>I vote for OSTSR, the OS/2 Time Slice Releaser also written in ASM
>by Jay Clegg. It takes up just 336 bytes of memory.
You are comparing apples and oranges. David's DLL lives on the disk
in a file containing 619 bytes. If I ask EXEHDR about TELLBOOT.DLL, it
tells me that it lives in 46H (70 decimal) bytes of "virtual memory."
Regards,
--Murray
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