1 Jan
2019
1 Jan
'19
10:11 a.m.
From: Larry McVoy
And cron is really 3246 bytes? And 2054 for init?
Don't those seem too
small? Linux's cron is 44472 and that's with shared libs
No, 3246 is the same as mine, and my init (which has a few changes from stock) is
2064.
I'm not surprised the later one is 44KB - that's in part due to the denseness
of PDP-11 binary (and the word-size is only 16 bits), but more broadly, I
expect that it goes to my complaint about later Unixes - they've lost, IMO,
the single most important thing about the PDP-11 Unixes, which is their
bang/buck ratio.
Noel