Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site endot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cwruecmp!endot!labuda 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 Article-I.D.: endot.105 Posted: Sat Jan 5 17:04:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 05:45:59 EST Organization: ENDOT Inc., Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 19 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 decvax!cwruecmp!labuda