Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kind of things would you wnat in the GNU OS
Summary: feeping creaturism (aka kernel inflation)
Message-ID: <3793@phri.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 01:26:52 GMT
References: <19851@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <19851@adm.BRL.MIL> cherry.STCWR@xerox.com writes:
> I'd say put [VM & symlinks] in.  Let the user determine whether to use
> them or not.  The fact that they are there doesn't hurt an OS.

	It is thinking like this that led us from the 40k kernels I used to
run back in the v6 days to the 500+k kernels we see today.
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