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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!mark From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:06:08 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2b9o2g$39d@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> References: <2b5qb7$oac@vega.info.isbiel.ch> <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <MIKE.93Nov3094037@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> <1993Nov3.180551.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz In article <1993Nov3.180551.1@spcvxb.spc.edu>, Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr. <terry@spcvxb.spc.edu> wrote: > When I got my 4.4BSD-SPARC distribution, I was rather dismayed to see that >the kernel was 4.7MB and that was with no tape support, no VME support, etc. Well my 4.4BSD-HP300 kernel on a fairly heavily configured system is: somes# ls -l /vmunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 708840 Oct 20 11:50 /vmunix stripped down to a "diskless xterminal" setup it goes to under 500KB. Does the sparc arch really make the kernel that much bigger or is there something else going on here? cheers mark