Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!kaon!nucsrl!naim From: naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: IBM's influence on OSF (Re: AT&T Joining OSF) Message-ID: <11410007@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Aug 88 00:05:19 GMT References: <4459@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 20 Barry Shein wrote: >Although this seems less important these days at the time I last >seriously looked into it VMS sources required about 500MB of disk and >a kernel rebuild reportedly took a standalone 780 overnight. Why are VMS sources so significantly bigger than UNIX sources ? I thought VMS was mainly written in BLISS and so the size would be comparable to UNIX sources. Are VMS sources more heavily commented than UNIX sources and can that be responsible for the size difference :-) ? This is strange since Barry mentioned that VMS sources do not include DECnet and UNIX sources even with tcp/ip and NFS do not take that much space. Naim Abdullah Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University Internet: naim@eecs.nwu.edu Uucp: {oddjob, chinet, att}!nucsrl!naim