SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison

[George Robbins]

In article <1928 at riscy.enet.dec.com> frank at croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
> In article <BARNETT.91Feb14130525 at grymoire.crd.ge.com>,
> barnett at grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
> > Sun use to link several SunView applications into one
> > executable, and by examining the name of the command, jump to the
> > proper branch of the executable. Therefore 5 different programs were
> > really one, and only required one copy in memory.
> > I don't know if this could be done with common DECwindows applications.
> 
> Sure is possible, and it is already done.  On my system (DECstation 3100,
> ULTRIX 4.0) dxwm, dxterm, dxue, and dxsession are one binary.  Dxcalc,
> dxcalendar, dxpuzzle, and dxclock are another, while dxcardfiler, dxpaint,
> and dxvdoc are a third.

Wouldn't shared libraries be a better solution than mashing sources together
to mimimize the overhead from multiple library copies???

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