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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Subject: Re: VMS shareable images, what's wrong with them?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct10.194031.14847@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
- References: <Bvo7FC.M01@ithaca.com> <1aubqgINNbhn@gap.caltech.edu> <ld5vdbINN763@news.bbn.com> <6372@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:40:31 GMT
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-
- In article <6372@npri6.npri.com>,
- murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
- |>
- |>it's not even a religious issue --- there's nothing to discuss.
- |>dec decided to implement shareable images in a certain way, and so they did,
- |>and that's all there is to it. i certainly wish they had done it differently,
- |>but there's no chance of changing it now because it would be incompatible.
-
- Not true. The image header record has major and minor version IDs precisely
- so that the image format can be changed in an upward-compatible fashion. As
- long as the Linker and image activator continued to recognize and process
- old-format images correctly, in principle anything goes as far as the changes
- that could be made in the new format.
-
- --PSW
-