SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison

Frank Wortner frank at croton.nyo.dec.com
Sat Feb 16 01:38:03 AEST 1991


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.

					Frank



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