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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Lee,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:36:53 +0000
Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:32:27AM +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> [delete]
> 
> Ron said:
> 
> > > > And in my view, the best DOS prog that I would like to see
> > > > ported to Linux is Arachne.
<snippo>
> > > Have to say that doesn't interest me a bit. I don't like
> > > monolithic apps like that.
> >
> > Oh, it is not monolithic. :)
> 
> Yes it is. "Monolithic" means that one is composed of a bunch of
> seperate apps.

   Have a look in your dictionary.  :)

> That's good, but size doesn't have anything to do with whether an
> app is monolithic or not.

   Agreed.  Monolithic means "all one piece".

> > It is actually a rather large collection of parts being
> > kept in the game by a kernel CORE.EXE.
> 
> Why? I don't need any help from my browser to do email.

    I am not suggestng you use it or anything. I just referenced it as the 
main DOS program I would like ported to Linux.


> I can change browsers at will. You can't. 

    Actually, yes I can.  Either in Linux or in DOS.  And my email client, 
and almost any other application that I use, some of which I have written 
(for DOS, anyway).

   But my needs are quite different to yours, so it is to be expected that I 
would make different demands, and use different software in different ways, 
to yourself.

   Isn't it good that we are all different, otherwise it would be a boring 
world.  :)

Regards,
         Ron 

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Ron Clarke 
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