Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!xadmx!rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: What kind of things would you wnat in the GNU OS Message-ID: <19918@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 7 Jun 89 17:40:47 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 20 ? From: Roy Smith ? 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. Perhaps a bit of arithmetic is in order. A V6 machine had 256k or perhaps 512k of core. Call it a ratio of 1:10. Todays machines have typically 4 or 8M. Again, call it 1:10. It takes more to do more. ? Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute ? 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ? {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu ? "The connector is the network" Root Boy Jim is what I am Are you what you are or what?