Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!rna!dan From: dan@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: How big is VMS? Message-ID: <16200001@rna.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: rna.16200001 Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 14:10:00 EST References: <201@dec-jaws.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:dec-jaws:-20100:rna:16200001:000:1034 Nf-From: rna!dan Jan 15 14:27:00 1985 > A recent posting to net.unix-wizards mentions UNIX's smallness as one of > its virtues. For comparison, I know of a functioning MicroVMS system that > occupies a total of 2878 blocks on an RD disk and can be stored as a backup > save set on 4 RX50 floppies. The person responsible for this calls it > "NanoVMS", and points out that "since it can MOUNT disks, and perform COPY > and BACKUP operations from them, it can grow into a full VMS system without > any omissions." > > My thanks to NanoVMS's configurer -- you know who you are, Ed -- and hope for > his forgiving my posting this information without his permission. I'm glad to hear VMS can be compressed like that. It is quite possible (I've done it) to run a minimal UNIX system capable of mounting, copying, and other file utilities in a single 500block (1/4Mb) floppy (including swap). A reasonably function system can be placed on two such floppies, which in addition to the standard utilities, could include a few applications and space for application data files.