(Excerpts from a message dated 11-23-99, 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.

 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." 

JS>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?  

    I suppose so.  If you want play that way, I have a 44-byte (file
size) .COM program that sets the left margin and type font on my old,
wide-carriage QuickWriter printer to allow 80-character lines to be
printed in 12-pitch type with a 1.25-inch left-hand binding margin.
EXEHDR can't measure it, but (as a DOS program) the memory used would be
144 bytes.  But Roy beat us both with his 7-byte  program.

    End of thread?

    Regards,

        --Murray

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