[Info-vax] x86-64 VMS executable image sizes and memory requirements ?

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On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 8:25:04 PM UTC-5, Kerry Main wrote:
> You mean like when Microsoft shipped Windows NT Alpha flavours of Office
> with all debug code loaded?
> 
> Yes, you are correct and even when it was pointed out to MS, they never
> fixed this...however, I doubt laziness was the issue.

I always assumed it was because the release builds didn't work (i.e. the release build exposed bugs the debug version didn't trigger).