Answering msg from Paul Edwards to Bill Grimsley,
on Thursday May 11 1995 at 18:16

 PE> Now come down to reality.  Msged is 200k.  Golded is 600k.  Whoopy
 PE> bloody do.  400k will set you back a massive 22 cents worth of
 PE> disk space, for millions of features.  And I can assure you that
 PE> I'll only be implementing either simple features, or ones that I
 PE> personally want.

    GoldED is so bloated because it has a lot of hand holding and debugging
information included in the EXE. It would be nice if a couple of versions
were released concurrently, one WITH the debugging, one WITHOUT. Then if
you have a consistent problem, you run the debug version and it reports all
the lovely function track dumps and verbose errors.

    99.99999999% of the time (ie when it's stable and working), it's just a
waste of bloody space, and slows it down.

 PE> If you feel that way, don't write the PD stuff in the first place.
 PE> In fact, if you think that it's so quick to turn a buck from PD
 PE> code, create a rival to Golded, and just watch the money roll in.
 PE> Golded wasn't PM last time I looked, some people like PM, so you
 PE> could stick a PM interface on it and make a profit from that.
 PE> Don't waste time on templates though, you can lift that from
 PE> msged hopefully.  Capitalism works, Bill, as the Russians found
 PE> out to their sorrow.  BFN.  Paul.

    If "PM" in your above sentence refers to protected mode, that
has been available in GoldED for a year or two. There are now three
versions: real mode DOS, PM DOS, OS/2.

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