Re: DECstation 3100 Kernel size and Diskless Operation

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From: Steve D. Miller
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1989 15:45

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If you take the DECstation /genvmunix and strip it, it goes from being
2.25MB in size down to 1.15MB in size.  It seems clear that a lot of
what's sucking up space is all the dbx-related cruft that's being kept
around.  Compiling out the DECnet code (an option for us, but not for
everyone) saves another 300K off the kernel size before stripping, and
I don't know how much after stripping.

I don't suppose anyone has (a) tried to rebuild the kernel from sources,
without -gN turned on, or (b) ported adb to the DECstations...  If I get
some spare time, I might try (a).

	-Steve

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