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From: labuda@endot.UUCP (Dave Labuda)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: OS info request
Message-ID: <105@endot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 17:04:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 17:04:12 1985
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Subject: OS info request
Newsgroups: net.architecture

I am preparing a paper on the wonders of the UNIX operating system, and
one of (in my opinion) its strongest points is its very small, clean
system call interface. I would like to contrast this to some huge and
ugly interfaces, but I am not familiar with other OS's. I would therefore
appreciate it if anyone out there who knows VMS or some other large scale
OS could let me know how many system calls the OS supports, and about how
large the source code for the OS is (give or take a few thousand lines).
Please mail me personally so as not to clutter the net, and if I get enough
queries I will post any results. Thank you.

					David Labuda
					Endot Inc

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