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to: Murray Lesser
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-11-23 19:23:20
subject: Small programs

Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

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.

 ML>     You are comparing apples and oranges.  David's DLL lives
 ML> on the disk in a file containing 619 bytes.  If I ask EXEHDR
 ML> about TELLBOOT.DLL, it tells me that it lives in 46H (70
 ML> decimal) bytes of "virtual memory." 

I was hoping you would not notice that:-)  On the other hand, Davids is an
external REXX function DLL file, not a regular application, right?  Jays OSTSR 
is a 920 byte "standalone" .com application... Does that count for anything?  

                                              Jack 
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