From: "Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:24:14 -0500
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Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> One legacy bug still in Word97 traces its ancestry directly to Winword
> 1.0 and DOS4's SHARE bug. And that's just one leetle bit of old code
> that needs to be cleaned out. Someone dismangled RegClean and found of
> its 800+k only 47k were required for the program's full functionality;
> all the rest was irrelevant leftovers. If you ask me, even just these
> two examples indicate a codebase in desperate need of a thorough
> housecleaning.

It would be a lot easier if M$ made parts of Win 9x open source.
But that will probably never happen.

Damian Yerrick
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