Re: Making MiNTOS the underlying Atari Operating System

[Evan Langlois <ekl@metronet.com>]

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996 pross@soho.ios.com wrote:

> I couldn't have said it better.  Thanks Yves.  Can somebody explain to
> me the concept of shared libraries and would it or does it apply to
> MiNTOS?

Basically with a shared library, you only load your library code
once total for all apps, not once for each app.  Usually, these are
also dynamically loaded, so that you can upgrade your apps just by
upgrading your library and you don't have to recompile.

MiNT can't do this because it is either very difficult or very
inefficient (or both) without VM.