Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: sizes of programs
Message-ID: <1989Jun9.164347.1162@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1339@novavax.UUCP> <6590143@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 16:43:47 GMT

In article <6590143@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
>Trivial C programs are not exactly tiny under un*x no matter what.

Originally they were.  But a lot of vendors (including Berkeley, which is
de facto a vendor) have gotten awfully casual about the sizes of programs
in recent years.  Under pdp11 Version 7, small programs really were small.
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