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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:14:11 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 28 Apr 97 at 21:16) Alaric B. Williams said:

> > I meant some GC for an *operating system", not for a single application.
> > Even Borland has such one! ;-)
> 
> What's the difference? The LispOS people are interested in using the 
> Boehm GC for their entire OS, from what I gather, unless they derive their
> own more efficient one (which I gather will be the case once the compiler is
> running).
You said it - "unless". That's why I asked about a working GC for an OS. I've 
got a feeling it should be much more complicated than one for a single app.
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