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From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: 4BSD bloat
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In-Reply-To: <199811231747.MAA16896@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu> from Michael Sokolov at "Nov 23, 98 12:47:58 pm"
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In article by Michael Sokolov:
>I have heard jokes that CSRG got Microsoft to rewrite 90% of the code for them.
>Seriously, though, the bloat starts in Reno and really gets out of hand in 4.4.
>The sources are bloated just as much as the binaries, so I wouldn't blame it
>just on the compiler or the libraries.

I can hear Steven Schultz say that the address space limitations of a
16-bit architecture help to minimise software bloat :-)

	Warren