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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!spcuna!spcvxb!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Nntp-Posting-Host: spcvxa.spc.edu References: <2b5qb7$oac@vega.info.isbiel.ch> <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <MIKE.93Nov3094037@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News) Organization: St. Peter's College, US Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 23:05:51 GMT Message-ID: <1993Nov3.180551.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> Lines: 29 In article <MIKE.93Nov3094037@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu>, mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Mike Haertel) writes: > I dunno about others, but I find it moderately ironic to have lived to > see the day when BSD kernels are considered "small" and "fast"... I remember > being horrified at the bloat in 4.2BSD, way back when. > > Just for the sake of nostalgia... [deleted] Well, 2.11BSD (essentially a backport of 4.3BSD to the PDP-11) sizes out as: spc11c.spc.edu% ls -l /*nix -rwxr--r-- 1 root 88278 Jul 23 19:05 /netnix -rwxr--r-- 1 root 145576 Jul 23 19:05 /unix lrwxr-x--- 1 root 4 Jan 14 1988 /vmunix -> unix This is for a kernel with pretty much the whole kitchen sink in it. And the following is from BSD/386 (a commercial product based on Net-2, also with a kitchen sink configuration). [0:3] spcuna:~> ls -l /bsd -rwxr--r-- 1 root wheel 501631 Oct 24 13:58 /bsd* 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. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381