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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Objectada link time
Date: 2000/10/02
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John Magness <jmagness@swbell.net> writes:
> Nicolas Brunot wrote:
[...]
> > Comparing with Rational Apex which also include the Microsoft linker,
> > there is a enormous difference.
> > for an application of about 15 Mo, linked from about 1200 Ada units :
> 
> Mo? is this megabytes of object code? What are the units?

Probably mega-octets, what most of us sloppily call megabytes.
(An octet is unambiguously 8 bits; a byte is *usually* 8 bits,
but it can vary.)

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