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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Since Most Everythings's right with SCO Can we make it smaller?
Message-ID: <TIZAOGB@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <7395@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 17:45:15 GMT

In article <7395@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
> Reading this thread, I can't help but to wonder:  why worry about
> kernel size, these days?

Memory is cheap. But it isn't free.

> Add another megabyte to the system and the problem will go away.

You want me to stop complaining, you buy me new motherboards for all the
old Compaq 386es with 1MB on the motherboard, 4MB max, and anything over 2MB
real expensive that we're stuck with.

> Seems
> a fairly simple and economical solution.  Even at 1-2Mb, kernels remain
> significantly smaller than most applications.

What are you RUNNING? The biggest things I run are O(100K).
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