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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 
> > You didn't count the size of the mouse driver. In DOS everything
> > had to come out of the addressable 1 MB of memory.
>   With a little coaxing, the old T3100 turned on.  MSMOUSE.SYS,
> dated 10-10-85, is 7003 bytes, not 35K.

OK.  You can believe that size on disk = amount of memory used, and
I'll believe that I did the experiment of building and running the
same program with and without mouse support and saved about 35kb.


Al