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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
Date: 19 Mar 2002 06:22:51 GMT
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:07:45 GMT, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> Yeah.  Why do Unix and Windows applications scatter pieces of themselves
> all over the place?  

So PATH=/usr/bin, not
/usr/abcde/bin:/usr/acroread/bin:/usr/bc/bin:/usr/cat/bin ...? So that
shared libraries are actually shared, instead of having a million copies
on hard disk and in memory? 

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