Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jaws!kaiser From: kaiser@jaws.DEC (Pete Kaiser 225-5441 HLO2-1/N10) Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: How big is VMS? Message-ID: <201@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 06:40:20 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.201 Posted: Mon Jan 14 06:40:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:42:28 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 16 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. ---Pete Kaiser%JAWS.DEC@decwrl.arpa, Kaiser%BELKER.DEC@decwrl.arpa {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jaws!kaiser DEC, 77 Reed Road (HLO2-1/N10), Hudson MA 01749 617/568-5441