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From: martin@minster.UUCP
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Subject: Re: oversize kernels
Message-ID: <541163737.20681@minster.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 06:15:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 06:15:40 1987
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In article <136@tdi2.UUCP> brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>Quoted from <13451@sun.uucp> ["Re: UUCP Port Turnaround (==> Unix Kernel hacks)"], by guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)...
>+---------------
>| >etc.  What's the old kernel up to these days, a meg and a half or so?]
>| 
>| gorodish$ size /vmunix
>| text		data	bss	dec	hex
>| 445120	77784	120348	643252	9d0b4
>+---------------
>
>$ size /unix
>169594 + 15206 + 144092 = 328892
>
>Why, if the BSD kernel is so small, is the System V Release 2 kernel half
>the size of it?
>

I'm sorry, but I can't resist this(:-)

$ size /unix
/unix: 95280+20400+146252 = 261932b = 0x3ff2cb

and this kernel has (arguably) more functionality than either of the above!

	Martin