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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!nntpserver!mike From: mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Mike Haertel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Message-ID: <MIKE.93Nov3094037@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> Date: 3 Nov 93 17:40:37 GMT Article-I.D.: majestix.MIKE.93Nov3094037 References: <2b5qb7$oac@vega.info.isbiel.ch> <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <VIXIE.93Nov3014358@pc.home.vix.com> Organization: CS Dept, University of Oregon Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: majestix.cs.uoregon.edu In-reply-to: vixie@pc.home.vix.com's message of 3 Nov 93 01:43:58 In article <VIXIE.93Nov3014358@pc.home.vix.com> vixie@pc.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >I'm betting that users of their AXP-PC systems feel a little bit cramped when >they load OSF. I'm sure if BSD were available, DEC would sell more iron since >folks who want something small and fast will at least consider them. DEC AXP >is the fastest processor in the world right now, and the software for it sure 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... $ ls -l v7/*unix -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 53302 Feb 14 1993 v7/hphtunix -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 52850 Feb 14 1993 v7/hptmunix -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 51790 Feb 14 1993 v7/rphtunix -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 51274 Feb 14 1993 v7/rptmunix $ ls -l v6/*unix -rwxrwxr-x 1 root 29074 Oct 1 1988 v6/hpunix -rwxrwxr-x 1 root 28836 Oct 1 1988 v6/rkunix -rwxrwxr-x 1 root 29020 Oct 1 1988 v6/rpunix -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 28684 Oct 1 1988 v6/unix -- Mike Haertel <mike@cs.uoregon.edu> ?warning: write might change good version of '/dev/null'