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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kind of things would you wnat in the GNU OS
Message-ID: <4455@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Jun 89 13:54:12 GMT
References: <19918@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <19918@adm.BRL.MIL>, rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes
about bigger kernels today...
> It takes more to do more.

But is it really doing that much more?

What's the 5.2.3 kernel doing that the V7 kernel didn't do?

	VM.
	Streams.
	RFS support (basically modifying namei() to support the network).
	termio instead of sgtty.
	?

What have I missed? And how much does it really take?
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