[TUHS] building world using sh run in /usr/source in v6
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Jan 1 14:11:35 AEST 2019
> From: Larry McVoy
> And cron is really 3246 bytes? And 2054 for init? Don't those seem too
> small? Linux's cron is 44472 and that's with shared libs
No, 3246 is the same as mine, and my init (which has a few changes from stock) is
2064.
I'm not surprised the later one is 44KB - that's in part due to the denseness
of PDP-11 binary (and the word-size is only 16 bits), but more broadly, I
expect that it goes to my complaint about later Unixes - they've lost, IMO,
the single most important thing about the PDP-11 Unixes, which is their
bang/buck ratio.
Noel
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