Article: Q61350
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00 7.10 | 7.00 7.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900407-1 docerr | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 15-JAN-1991
There is an apparent contradiction, which needs clarification, at the
top of page 566 in the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide" for
Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.00
and 7.10. Page 566 first states, "Stand-alone programs require more
disk space than those requiring the run-time module." Then it states,
"Stand-alone programs do have the following advantages, however:
Stand-alone programs always require less memory than their run-time
equivalents."
The first statement means to say that one stand-alone program requires
more disk space than one equivalent run-time program if you do not
count the size of the run-time module. The second statement means to
say that stand-alone programs always require less memory in RAM than
their run-time equivalents (counting the run-time module).
One stand-alone program requires less RAM or disk memory than its
run-time equivalent if you count the size of the run-time module.
However, with a large enough number of .EXE programs, the combined
stand-alone programs require more disk storage space than the combined
run-time equivalents, which share one run-time module.