Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <3340.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 8 May 91 08:14:50 GMT References: <11866@uwm.edu> <1991May7.080524.4409@cs.umu.se> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 14 Quoted from <1991May7.080524.4409@cs.umu.se> by dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist): > Oh NO! Don't write an "Hello World"!!, I did once, and I'm still counting > the flames! :-) Ha ha! I reckon your program was fine. The C equivalent insists on stuffing some registers on the stack, and storing DOSBase in memory somewhere, and using rts intsead of jmping to the Write(). 128 bytes on my machine, though. 1 tenth the size of an appropriately compiled NeXT version, apparently. > /$DR.HEX$ -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***