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to: Jack Stein
from: Murray Lesser
date: 1999-11-22 10:52:00
subject: Small programs

(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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