[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <gmtZr.3213$_h6.924 at fx03.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> 
> I'm not sure that logic would make so much sense now...

   My first UNIX did not have shareable libraries.  So every program
   that called printf has a copy of it, ...

   MS-DOS was like that, too.  Hello World in Fortran was huge on disk.

   But UNIX and Windows caught up with VMS on that one a long time ago.
   You need record support for several HLL, but there only needs to be
   one copy of the code and read-only data.

   What you don't get that way is the code you need to pass data files
   between record oriented HLL and byte stream oriented HLL.