On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > [root@host ~/clms]# ls -l `which vim`
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1221212 Oct 15  2006 /usr/local/bin/vim
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim71>dir gvim.exe
> > Volume in drive C has no label.
> > Volume Serial Number is B001-B4A3
> >
> > Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim71
> >
> > 05/12/2007  12:19 PM         1,585,152 gvim.exe
> >              1 File(s)      1,585,152 bytes
> >              0 Dir(s)   5,075,197,952 bytes free
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim71>dir vim.exe
> > Volume in drive C has no label.
> > Volume Serial Number is B001-B4A3
> >
> > Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim71
> >
> > 05/12/2007  12:14 PM         1,372,160 vim.exe
> >              1 File(s)      1,372,160 bytes
> >              0 Dir(s)   5,075,197,952 bytes free
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim71>
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > So what? (and the two latter were _Windows_ binaries).
> >
> >> I realize that is utterly unfair. Sort of.
> >
> > Nice of you to realize that. Sort of.
> >
>
> yes, I agree, I was being terribly unfair to plan 9. Acme on plan 9 is
> about 1/2 M. Vim on DOS is 3x larger? impressive.
>
> Ron
>
> How much of that is library support code to make it work? :-)