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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 09:48:14 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: `Not enough memory to run GO32' ?

>   Could GO32 be revised so it could run more than one Gnu C program at once?
> I.e. if Gnu C program X calls Gnu C program Y, the (copy of GO32 that called
> X) would also call Y. If Y is on an .EXE file that on examination proves to
> start with its own copy of GO32.EXE, then X's copy of GO32 would ignore the
> GO32.EXE part of Y.EXE and load the rest of it and run it.

In V2.0 this is a moot point - there is NO go32.  The effort required
to modify 1.X's go32 to do this is too much to bother since we're
currently working on V2.0.

>   There would also seem to be a case for thoroughly searching and going over
> GO32 to reduce its bulk as far as possible. 78810 bytes seems rather a lot.

We've done this a few times already.


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