Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 20:06:23 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: oandico AT gollum DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


> first, will old libs (.a) still work? i have some useful libs for which i 
> don't have source so i can't rebuild them

Most likely not.  Some of the structure sizes and layouts in the
headers had to be fixed and expanded, including FILE* and struct stat,
which are very popular.

> second, how much machine will it need? (i.e. memory, hard disk, etc)

Same as V1.

> what goodies does v2 have over the earlier ones?

Much more stable; smaller footprint for nested programs; more POSIX
compliant; more standard functions in libc; 100% DPMI compliant; etc.