From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how small can you get 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> 
   of "Thu, 07 Feb 2002 20:48:18 EST." <97472ed312d33afdc19adc450f5e64d5@plan9.bell-labs.com> 
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2002 20:52:07 -0500
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| I just built a stripped down pc kernel --
| IDE, CGA, no ether, no network, and got 
| about 361kb.

I'm surprised it is that big.  Back in the days of 4.2BSD, normal
kernels were smaller than that.  But maybe the vax had better code
density than x86.