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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Operating system sizes
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Date: 6 Mar 91 10:19:29 GMT
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In article <2551@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, gordoni@chook.adelaide.edu.au (Gordon Irlam) writes:
> Minix 1.5, Tanenbaum - 30k.  A "toy" system designed to teach the
>     principles of operating systems design.  Significantly larger than
>     32/V!

I always thought the 32V compiler had trouble recognising comments, there were
so few! Minix is the reverse; as a teaching tool, it has a high proportion of
comments.

In the same vein, I am sure there must be C compilers that have tiny symbol
tables, given the number of C programs that have meaningless 1/2 character
identifiers in them. Yes, I do know about the *real* 6/8 character limit on
some compilers :-)
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