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Wow, that's cool.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#28)
by foxyshadis1 on Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 04:51:07 PM PDT

That's actually what SxS is, Side-by-Side install. XP includes several versions each of a couple dozen system DLLs. Its usefulness is still really limited, since it's only those couple dozen instead of several hundred; maybe by longhorn everything'll be fully versioned out. (I'm sure they got the idea from unix, like most of their 'new and better' features.)

I'm surprised that Linux took a blow like that in step, but it's been a while since I spent a lot of time on it, so I guess some of my ideas are outdated. I'm going to have to update myself. And Fushigi is right, my bad, unix OSes have been far more durable than PC OSes forever. (With my experience with Solaris, I should've known better.)

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