From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-10 12:10:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:10:14 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3B23C616.6CC69A3B@nbi.dk> References: <3B1FDE49.17AAF924@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <8766e76sws.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B20D103.E633F7C5@easystreet.com> <87ofrzj6y2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9ftnpg$8ae$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <0049Rfy3etgD@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 992200214 25012 130.225.212.55 (10 Jun 2001 19:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:10:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8518 Date: 2001-06-10T21:10:14+02:00 List-Id: Larry: > Well it is a good thing you choose to keep it a secret what other > operating system uses that terminology. I think Georg tried to give you a hint instead of just writing "OS/2". > I do not consider either SMP or journaled file systems to be relevant, > since those are very standard terms used across the industry. DLLs are > a specific term not used in many operating systems that do the same thing. Besides OS/2 and Windows, I have heard that it should be possible to use DLL's compiled for Windows in Linux (on the Intel 32 bit architecture). Jacob PS: The layout of OS/2 DLL's is probably different from that of Windows DLL's since OS/2 is a 32 bit system. -- "Dansk sprogn�vn er en flok spader! Cognac kan kun staves p� �n m�de" Henrik Christian Grove