Why unstripped DEC commands?

[Piet Tutelaers]

There are a lot of ULTRIX commands that are not stripped. On our Ultrix 3.1
DECstations we have for example:
/usr/bin/dxterm:	mipsel demand paged setuid executable not stripped - version 1. 31
-rwsr-xr-x  5 root      5080168 Nov 16  1989 /usr/bin/dxterm

If I strip this command I get a size of:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rcpt      2727936 Oct 18 12:04 /rc6u1/rcpt/dxterm

Can somebody explain why this, and other commands, are NOT stripped. Is this to
sell more disks? 

Thanks,

Piet Tutelaers

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