Kernel Sizes (was Re: Since Most Everythings's right... )

Heiko Blume src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de
Wed May 1 21:40:50 AEST 1991


gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>My ISC 1.0.6 MultiBus kernel is 573K. Sounds like it's growing
>by leaps and bounds....

>Has anyone surveyed kernel sizes, or graphed the size since UNIX 
>was released? Might me some interesting data in there....

wait 'till you see s5r4 kernels, at CeBIT faire i saw kernels
between 1.1 and 1.6MB (ugh) code size.
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