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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Kernel Sizes (was Re: Since Most Everythings's right... )
Message-ID: <1991May01.114050.28606@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 1 May 91 11:40:50 GMT
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gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>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....

wait 'till you see s5r4 kernels, at CeBIT faire i saw kernels
between 1.1 and 1.6MB (ugh) code size.
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