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From: ricker@bunker.UUCP (ricker)
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Subject: Re: terminfo and curses
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Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 14:36:04 EST
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In article <257@BMS-AT.UUCP> stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
>	A 30K curses program on the 6350 is 60K on the 8000.
>
>	A non-curses program on the 8000 is typically 25%
>	smaller than the identical C code on the 6350
>	because of optimization.
>

1)	I don't know about the differences between a 6350 and an 8000
	but, do you know if the compiler is the exact same on both systems?

2)	Terminal-independent code is most likely going to be larger than
	terminal-specific code. Trade-offs ya know :) 

Running terminfo/curses on an altos is not terribly depressing although of
course not perfect.