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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!horse.ee.lbl.gov!torek From: torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Date: 4 Nov 1993 07:00:28 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <35278@dog.ee.lbl.gov> References: <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <MIKE.93Nov3094037@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> <1993Nov3.180551.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.15 In article <1993Nov3.180551.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes: > 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. Actually, that is about .7 MB of kernel, with about 4 MB of gdb debugging symbols: % size vmunix text data bss dec hex 647168 76256 139336 862760 d2a28 % cp vmunix /tmp % strip -d /tmp/vmunix % ls -l /tmp/vmunix vmunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 torek wheel 807539 Nov 3 22:57 /tmp/vmunix -rwxr-xr-x 1 torek src 4772254 Nov 3 22:54 vmunix % -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Lawrence Berkeley Lab CSE/EE (+1 510 486 5427) Berkeley, CA Domain: torek@ee.lbl.gov