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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Kernel Sizes (was Re: Since Most Everythings's right... )
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.154810.11936@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 15:48:10 GMT
References: <204@mnopltd.UUCP> <545@jahangir.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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In article <545@jahangir.UUCP> marc@jahangir.UUCP (Marc Rossner) writes:
>In article <204@mnopltd.UUCP>, neal@mnopltd.UUCP writes:
>> I noticed that the Xenix 2.3.2 kernel is about 1000K.   The SCO Unix
>> kernel is about 2000K.   

>I thought that the advantage of Xenix was that it was supposed to be tiny.
>I also thought that I had a rather massive kernel on my ISC 2.2.  My
>kernel is 750K.  Are you sure you have your numbers right?

My ISC 1.0.6 MultiBus kernel is 573K. Sounds like it's growing
by leaps and bounds....

Has anyone surveyed kernel sizes, or graphed the size since UNIX 
was released? Might me some interesting data in there....

Gary

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