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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about Alink
Message-ID: <264@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-May-86 14:18:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 14:18:57 1986
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In article <247@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) writes:
>
>As I said before, hello.c compiles and links to 4720 bytes under Aztec C.
>
>To re-iterate on size, a friend re-wrote the echo command in assembler, and
>it was less than 30 bytes!!!!
>
>	Regards,
>		Paul Higginbottom
>
>Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore (just steal their VAX time), and my 
>opinions are at least my own.

But of course, there's no practical difference on the Amiga between a 30
byte program and a 488 byte program.  Every file must take up at least two
blocks, one for the file header and one for the first data block.  That's
two 512 byte blocks.  Each data block has an overhead of six (if I remember
correctly) longwords for link pointers, back pointers, sequence numbers,
checksum, etc.  



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Dave Haynie    {caip,inhp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
               "There, beyond the bounds of your weak imagination
                Lie the noble towers of my city, bright and gold"
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