Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!fernwood!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 May 91 12:40:08 GMT References: <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu> <4d7Gypu=1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <4d7Gypu=1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > I'm just responding to the posts my by Amiga users. When you guys ask > how large is NeXT software, and scream we don't want a program if it's > too large, what am I suppose to say? "You have a point there" > The NeXT is a workstation. The Amiga is a workstation too. But even as UNIX workstations go the NeXT is pretty wasteful of space. Plain BSD can run in 640K on an 80386. That's the latest BSD, by the way. The problem with the NeXT is they took an intermediate port of a research O/S (Mach) and used it. They didn't wait for (or do themselves) a real microkernel version, so the NeXT system image takes up 30M of VM before you load any apps. Why? It's got two operating systems in there: Mach *plus* most of BSD. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .