What kind of things would you wnat in the GNU OS
Root Boy Jim
rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov
Thu Jun 8 03:40:47 AEST 1989
? From: Roy Smith <roy at phri.uucp>
? In article <19851 at adm.BRL.MIL> cherry.STCWR at xerox.com writes:
? > I'd say put [VM & symlinks] in. Let the user determine whether to use
? > them or not. The fact that they are there doesn't hurt an OS.
? It is thinking like this that led us from the 40k kernels I used to
? run back in the v6 days to the 500+k kernels we see today.
Perhaps a bit of arithmetic is in order. A V6 machine had 256k or perhaps
512k of core. Call it a ratio of 1:10. Todays machines have typically
4 or 8M. Again, call it 1:10. It takes more to do more.
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