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From: bwa@dbapic.com.au (Barry W Anderson)
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Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 00:09:13 GMT
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Scott Schwartz (schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu) wrote:

: By my measurements, Bash is more than half the size of emacs 18,
: including the X support.

: Bash is about three times the size of the Plan 9 kernel.  Plan 9 + the
: 8.5 window system + the rc shell is still smaller.

: Something's out of hand in Unix land.

Hey guys, I worked it out...MS wrote BASH (look at the bloat, then look at NT)

:-)

Barry
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