On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Michael Kukat wrote:

[...]

> VAXen
> seem to need less space due to the much better CPU architecture. Maybe if we
> compare Alphas with VAXen needing 4 times the memory, i would say intel CPUs
> need about the double RAM of VAX CPUs. (Don't know exactly, but i think it is
> in the range 1.5-2.0)
> Windows might get 8 to 16 times :-)

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Junk:/home/bqt> uname -m
i386
Junk:/home/bqt> ls -l /netbsd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2837305 Apr 15 02:16 /netbsd
Junk:/home/bqt> 


Trantor:/home/bqt> uname -m
vax
Trantor:/home/bqt> ls -l /netbsd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1017314 Apr 15 04:47 /netbsd
Trantor:/home/bqt> 

And my i386-kernel has been stripped a little, compared to the generic,
while the VAX has been expanded some.
But... The i386-kernel still supports more different hardware anyway, do I
guess those numbers don't tell all that much.

Hmmm, aother look...

Junk:/home/bqt> ls -l /bin/csh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  266240 Apr 13 22:09 /bin/csh*

Trantor:/home/bqt> ls -l /bin/csh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  204800 Nov 10 01:22 /bin/csh*

Not that much smaller csh, hmmm...

	Johnny
 

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