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From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD
Date: 08 Feb 1997 17:50:39 -0500
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doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry) writes:
| >at least account for those processes that perform kernel functionality
| >in a monolithic kernel world.  Though i have no doubts that it won't
| >be much more than 200...300 KB in QNX.
| 
| Well, once we have the network stuff, socket interface and TCP stack
| going we start using around 700k code and data.

For comparison, Plan 9's kernel on an x86:
350716t + 95088d + 126092b = 571896

And the window system:
109498t + 5648d + 75804b = 190950